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Useful Links to Disciplinary Resources
International Relations, Social Science, Political Science, History, Art,
Literature, Economics, Law, Geology, Chemistry, Physics, Miscellaneous

 


International Relations

Links Library http://www.isn.ethz.ch/infoservice/linkslib/

A collection of links to sites relating to international relations and security issues, including sites of governments, NGOs, research institutes, journals, armed forces, and on specific topics.
United Nations http://www.un.org/
 Access to all things United Nations
The WWW Virtual Library:  International Affairs Resources http://www.etown.edu/vl/
This section of the WWW Virtual Library system presents over 2600 annotated links in a wide range of international affairs, international studies, and international relations topics.
FIRST (Facts on International Relations and Security Trends) http://first.sipri.org/
The integrated database system contains clearly documented information from research institutes around the world. It covers areas in the field of international relations and security, such as hard facts on armed conflicts and peace keeping, arms production and trade, military expenditure, armed forces and conventional weapons holding, nuclear weapons, chronology, statistics and other reference data.

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Social Sciences

Research Resources for the Social Sciences http://www.socsciresearch.com/

Provides an extensive list of links to sites on such topics as Sociology and Anthropology, Political Science, Psychology, Women's Studies, and News/Journalism.
SOSIG (Social Science Information Gateway) http://www.sosig.ac.uk/
SOSIG aims to provide a trusted source of selected, high quality Internet information for students, academics, researchers and practitioners in the social sciences, business and law.
Social Sciences Virtual Library http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/gthursby/socsci/index.htm
This page keeps track of online information as part of The World-Wide Web Virtual Library.  The links direct you to social science directories and data archives, electronic journals, scholarly societies, WWW resources by subject.
Sociologia.de http://www.sociologia.de/soc/research/index.htm
 A stock of social science resources (Best viewed in Internet Explorer)

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Political Science

ICPSR (Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research) http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/

ICPSR maintains and provides access to a vast archive of social science data for research and instruction.  In addition, ICPSR hosts a number of topical archives.  The data files ICPSR supplies for use are for statistical software, such as SAS or SPSS.
Ultimate Political Science Links Page http://www.rvc.cc.il.us/faclink/pruckman/PSLinks.htm
 This site provides links to, among other things, major associations, such as universities and departments of political science, assorted resources, information on several areas of study, journals and publications, on-line political news, and various college, university, and public libraries.
Political Science Resources http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/
Political Science Resources is a gateway to many resources relevant to the study of politics and government.  It provides links to area studies, constitutions, elections, political parties, political theory, and several others.
Poly-Cy:  Internet Resources for Political Science http://www.polsci.wvu.edu/PolyCy/
This site is intended to provide a set of links useful for navigating the World Wide Web in the areas of Political Science, International Affairs, Public Policy, and Public Affairs.

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History

History World http://www.historyworld.net/default.asp

History World consists of some 400 separate histories and 4000 tagged events.  The site allows you to read on a chosen subject, travel through time on a tour, view various timelines, and also includes specialist articles.
The WWW Virtual Library:  History http://www.ku.edu/history/VL/
The History Network of the World Wide Web Virtual Library provides links and information on area studies (Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe, and Oceania), various historical topics, different eras and epochs, and research methods and materials.
Academic Info:  History Gateway http://www.academicinfo.net/hist.html
Academic Info's goal is to improve access to online educational resources by developing an easy to use subject directory covering various academic disciplines.  To do so, the site's History Gateway provides links to assorted World History, Country & Regional, and Topical Histories resources.
Worldhistory.com http://www.worldhistory.com/
Worldhistory.com is a popular site with archives on such things as U.S. and World history, wars, famous people and famous women, popular timelines, and country facts.

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Arts (Music, Architecture, Drama, Painting/Drawing, Dance, Sculpture)

the-artists.org http://www.the-artists.org/

Provides information on the 20th century and contemporary visual artists.  Includes each artist's portrait, a brief biography, links to articles, and essays and interviews.
The Art History Research Centre http://art-history.concordia.ca/AHRC/
The AHRC is a tool for art historical research on the internet. It shares key resources and methods of online research so that art historians can find the resources relevant to their work.
Zeroland – the arts on the web http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~ahart/index.html
Zeroland is a directory of art and culture web pages, indexed alphabetically under subject, genre, period, name and country.  It links to arts and culture web pages of special artistic, literary, imaginative, creative, spiritual, intellectual or scholarly value.  It also links to directories and pages of general interest to younger people, to students, as well as to the casual, interested browser.
Educational Resources in Fine Art http://www.cln.org/subjects/fine.html
This web page provides three types of material:  curricular resources, instructional materials, and theme pages.  The section for curricular resources contain links Information/explanations for students and teachers wishing to learn more about art, arts and crafts, dance, drama and theater, and music.  Instructional materials contains lesson plans and teaching tips/ideas for Fine Arts teachers, and the theme pages provide curricular resources as well as instructional materials on specific Fine Arts topics.
The Internet Public Library:  Fine Arts http://www.ipl.org/div/subject/browse/hum20.00.00/
The Internet Public Library is a public service organization and a learning/teaching environment at the University of Michigan School of Information.  The section on fine arts contains many resource links, as well as connections to other Arts & Humanities domains.  

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Literature (English, American, World)

Zeroland Literature on the Web http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~ahart/literature.html

Zeroland is a systematic directory of art and culture web pages, indexed alphabetically under subject, genre, period, name and country. This site links to arts and culture web pages of special artistic, literary, imaginative, creative, spiritual, intellectual or scholarly value. It also links to directories and pages of general interest to younger people, to students, as well as to the casual, interested browser.
Literature Resources:  The Gateway http://www.lib.ohio-state.edu/gateway/bib/literature.html#top
The Gateway to Information guides you to important information sources in literature (print, online, and World Wide Web) suggested by Ohio State University Libraries subject specialists.
Literary Resources on the Net http://newark.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/
This set of pages is a collection of links to sites on the Internet dealing especially with English and American literature, excluding most single electronic texts, and is limited to collections of information useful to academics.
Linda's Links to Literature http://www.richmond.k12.va.us/readamillion/LITERATURE/lindas_links_to_literature.htm
This web site has 14,000+ links to activities and lesson plans for children's and young adult literature.
Bartleby.com http://www.bartleby.com/
An internet publisher of literature, reference and verse providing students, researchers and the intellectually curious with unlimited access to books and information on the web, free of charge.

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Economics

Inomics http://www.inomics.com/cgi/show

Inomics is an Internet service especially tailored to the needs of economists. At this site you can find job openings for economists, conference announcements, a human edited directory as well as a database of research papers in economics.
Economics Research Network http://www.ssrn.com/ern/index.html
The Economics Research Network is dedicated to increasing communication among economics scholars, practitioners, and policy makers throughout the world. ERN is a division of Social Science Research Network (SSRN), which also sponsors the Accounting Research Network (ARN), the Financial Economics Network (FEN), the Legal Scholarship Network (LSN) and the Management Research Network (MRN).
IDEAS http://ideas.repec.org/
IDEAS is a large bibliographic database providing information about working papers and published research to the economics profession.  There are over 200,000 items of research that can be browsed or searched, and over 100,000 can be downloaded in full text.
WebEc http://www.helsinki.fi/WebEc/
WebEc is an effort to categorize free information in economics on the WWW.  It provides links to such things as general economics resources, economics data, international economics, economic history, and economics of networks.

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Law

Find Law http://www.findlaw.com/

This high trafficked legal web site provides a comprehensive set of legal resources for legal professionals, businesses, students and individuals. These resources include Web search utilities, cases and codes, legal news, an online career center, and community oriented tools, such as a secure document management utility, mailing lists, message boards and free e-mail.
NYU Law:  Guide to Foreign and International Legal Databases http://www.law.nyu.edu/library/foreign_intl/index.html
This library, from New York University's School of Law, includes links to foreign and international search engines, constitutions, human rights, international criminal law, international law databases, international treaties, and virtual libraries.
JURIST http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/
JURIST is the Internet's legal education portal, the university based academic gateway to authoritative legal instruction, information and scholarship online. It's designed for people learning, teaching or researching law - legal scholars, law students, law librarians, lawyers and judges, journalists, and interested citizens.
Hieros Gamos http://www.hg.org/
A comprehensive guide to law and government worldwide with legal links, seminars, free databases and software.  Site includes several centers:  Law Business, Law Events & Library, Law Practice, Law Students, Legal Employment, and Law Consumer.  Hieros Gamos also provides information on U.S. and International Law, and Legal and Bar associations.
Law Library of Congress:  Guide to Law Online http://www.loc.gov/law/guide/
The Guide to Law Online is an annotated compendium of Internet links; a portal of Internet sources of interest to legal researchers. In compiling this list, emphasis wherever possible has been on sites offering the full texts of laws, regulations, and court decisions, along with commentary from lawyers writing primarily for other lawyers. Materials related to law and government that were written by or for lay persons also have been included, as have government sites providing general information.

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Geology

GEOindex http://www.geoindex.com/geoindex/index.html

GeoIndex is a powerful Search Engine developed fill a need for the Geo-Environmental professional.  The areas covered by this search Engine are:  Geotechnical, Environmental, Hydrogeology, Geology, Mining, and Petroleum.  This is a continuously growing service which will provide a rich environment of information.  The information available is broken down into four different Categories, and they are COMPANIES, ASSOCIATIONS, EDUCATION, and GOVERNMENT.
Boggy's Geology Links http://geologylinks.freeyellow.com/geolinks.html
Organized collection of internet links to sites related to geology, including paleontology, vertebrates, evolution, hydrogeology, sedimentology, mapping, and mineralogy.  Also includes links to geological magazines, software, university departments, and jobs.

GeologyLink file:///D:/Writing%20Center/www.geologylink.com

GeologyLink is a public forum for all matters geological. This area is open to students, university instructors, professional geologists, and anyone else who seeks insight into the world’s daily geological rumblings.
Geology Web Links http://www.lcc.ctc.edu/departments/natural_sciences/links/linksGEOL.xtm
Links to a wide variety of resources involving analytical instruments, geochemistry, general geology, geophysics, mineralogy, mining equipment, planetary geology, and tectonics, as well as related information on conferences, surveys, information services, newsgroups, associations, and much more.

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Chemistry

Academic Info:  Chemistry Gateway http://academicinfo.net/chem.html

The Chemistry Gateway includes links to general chemistry, organic chemistry, chemistry education, chemistry databases & chemistry publications.  The site also contains links to a reference shelf, chemistry libraries, and other areas of science.
Links for Chemists http://www.liv.ac.uk/Chemistry/Links/links.html
Links for Chemists, an index of chemistry resources on the web, is the Chemistry section of The WWW Virtual Library.  The site includes links to University Chemistry Departments, Chemical Literature and Information, Organizations, Topics, and links to other Chemistry sites.
Chemistry 2000 http://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/c2k/
Chemistry 2000 claims to link to two thousand of the best chemistry sites.  Their links are divided into Chemistry Departments, Journals, Societies, and other data.
Chemistry Gateway
Provides free access to high quality Internet resources for students, researchers and practitioners in the physical sciences, specifically in chemistry.

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Physics

Academic Info:  Physics Resources http://www.academicinfo.net/physics.html

The Physics Resources site includes links to general physics, educational resources, physics organizations, a reference desk and digital library, other areas of science, physics databases, astrophysics, atomic and plasma physics, electrodynamics, high energy physics, nuclear physics, quantum mechanics, and relativity.
Physics Gateway http://www.psigate.ac.uk/newsite/physics-gateway.html
Provides free access to high quality Internet resources for students, researchers and practitioners in the physical sciences, specifically in physics.
SPIRES HEP Database http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/hep/
Search more than 500,000 high energy physics related articles, including journal papers, preprints, e-prints, technical reports, conference papers and theses, comprehensively indexed by the SLAC and DESY libraries since 1974.
PhysicsWeb: Resources http://physicsweb.org/resources/home
The Resource section of the PhysicsWeb page contains links to educational resources, physics organizations, publishing resources, physics references, and even humor.  The PhysicsWeb home page includes even more information.

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Miscellaneous

WWW Virtual Library http://vlib.org/Home.html

A catalog of pages with key links to Agriculture, Business and Economics, Computing, Communications and Media, Education, Engineering, Humanities, Information and Libraries, International Affairs, Law, Recreation, Regional Studies, Science, and Society.
General Reference (WWW Virtual Library) http://home.istar.ca/~obyrne/
The links on this page take you to general encyclopedic works; dictionaries, thesauri, and quotations; biographical and geographical sources; statistics; almanacs and yearbooks; directories and indexes; and a link to full text articles from over 300 magazines.
Infoplease http://infoplease.com/
Information Please is part of Pearson Education, the largest educational publisher in the world and owner of Prentice Hall.  The site is dedicated to providing reliable information, in a way that engages and entertains.
Infoplease 4 Teachers http://teachers.infoplease.com/
A combined reference and teacher resource.
Common Errors in English http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/
A Washington State University professor's explanation of hundreds of common errors made by native speakers of English.
Guide to Grammar and Style http://newark.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Writing/
The information on this site ranges from copy editing to elements of style to discussions.  There is also a link for "Getting an A on an English Paper."
Dictionary.com http://dictionary.reference.com/
Dictionary.com is a multi-source dictionary search service that also provides a searchable thesaurus, language resources, a word of the day, and foreign language dictionaries.
dmoz Open Directory Project http://dmoz.org/
The Open Directory Project is a large, comprehensive human edited directory of the Web. It is constructed and maintained by a vast, global community of volunteer editors with the hopes of being the definitive catalog of the Web.
Open Directory Project: Writers Resources http://dmoz.org/Arts/Writers_Resources/
This page contains a plethora of links to various writer's resources.  There are links to such things as book writing, creative writing, publishers, research, software, song writing, style guides, workshops and courses, and FAQ's, help, and tutorials.

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