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http://www.mcp.com/zdpress/features/3970/ CGI online manual http://www.webaid.com/ WEBAID lots of html help From louk@www.math.uwaterloo.ca Fri Oct 18 22:45:29 1996 Received: (from louk@localhost) by www.math.uwaterloo.ca (8.7.6/8.7.3) id WAA13746 for henry; Fri, 18 Oct 1996 22:45:29 -0400 (EDT) From: Louis Kates Message-Id: <199610190245.WAA13746@www.math.uwaterloo.ca> Subject: Web Reference Resources (fwd) To: henry@www.math.uwaterloo.ca Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 22:45:28 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Status: RO Forwarded message: >From owner-carr-l@ULKYVM.LOUISVILLE.EDU Fri Oct 18 22:35:03 1996 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Message-ID: Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 22:32:35 -0400 Reply-To: Computer-assisted Reporting & Research Sender: Computer-assisted Reporting & Research From: cbs Subject: Web Reference Resources (fwd) To: Multiple recipients of list CARR-L I just received this listing of useful World Wide Web resources and thought CARR-L members might like a copy. -- Ken ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 19:21:42 EDT From: Betty Reply-To: H-NET/IEAHC Electronic Association in Early American Studies To: Multiple recipients of list SEDIT-L Subject: H-Net Guide to WWW Oct 14, 1996 FYI ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- H-Net Guide to WWW Sites October 14, 1996 Locations of Interest to H-Net Subscribers send along corrections and suggestions to RJensen@uic.edu 1. --General Purpose & Search a) YAHOO: http://www.yahoo.com Yahoo, a commercial operation, is the most useful starting point. It adds 1000+ sites every day b) AltaVista: most powerful serach tool; may produce too many hits; http://altavista.digital.com c) Webcrawler: excellent searches: http://webcrawler.com d) LYCOS: good searches: http://www.lycos.com e) EXCITE: good conceptual searches: http://www.excite.com f) finding people's email address: http://www.Four11.com/ academics: http://www.uiuc.edu/cgi-bin/ph/lookup? g) Global Network Navigator: broad overview of WWW www http://gnn.com/gnn/index.html h) how to set up your own www page http://www.fred.net/nhhs/html2/present.htm i) H-Net Guide to citing WWW sources: http://h-net2.msu.edu/~africa/citation.html j) Writing Guides; stylesheets http://fur.rscc.cc.tn.us/OWL/UsingSources_MLA.html http://www.alleg.edu/Admin/Computing/OldGopher/Local_Information/ Allegheny_Information/StyleSheets/mlastyle 2. 1996 US election a) Yahoo: http://www.yahoo.com/Government/Politics/Elections/ b) http://www.tntech.edu/www/acad/hist/elec96.html c) ABC/Washington Post/Ntl Journal http://www.politicsnow.com/ very rich daily reports, state-by-state; vg on polls d) Almanac of Am Politics [every Congressional district in detail] http://politicsusa.com/PoliticsUSA/resources/almanac/ e) Congressional Quarterly: http://voter96.cqalert.com f) US News [popular] http://www.usnews.com g) National Election Studies/ICPSR http://www.umich.edu/~nes h) others: http://www.sendit.nodak.edu/sendit/election.html 3. Area Studies [see also http://h-net.msu.edu] a) African Studies Assoc: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/AS.html b) Africa: http://h-net2.msu.edu/~africa/ c) Asian studies: http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-AsianStudies.html d) Australia: http://www.psu.edu/research/anzsc/areas/au/Ausi.html e) Canadian Studies: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/ clamen/misc/Canadiana/README.html#Travel f) French culture: HAPAX http://hapax.be.sbc.edu/ g) Japan: http://fuji.stanford.edu:80/VLIB/index.html h) Japanese studies, K-12 http://www.csuohio.edu/history/japan.html i) Middle East: http://menic.utexas.edu/mes.html 4. Demographics/Social Data/Geography a) Census: using US Census (1950-1990) for class projects. http://www.psc.lsa.umich.edu/SSDAN/ b) Demographic resources; an excellent guide http://coombs.anu.edu.au/ResFacilities/DemographyPage.html c) Demographic statistics: http:)/opr.princeton.edu (link to data archive through European Fertility Project) d) Essex Social Science Data Archives http://www.essex.ac.uk [major British data archive, with much historical data] e) Ethnicity, migration: http://www.ruu.nl/ercomer/wwwvl/index.html f) General Social Survey [annual poll of USA] http://www.soc.qc.edu superb guide to social science citations & abstracts of all studies that used this major data base. The complete GSS can even be downloaded. g) Historical Geography Group http://www.maxwell.syr.edu/geo/histgeo/histgeo.htm h) Maison des Sciences de l'Homme http://www.msh-paris.fr i) Population Index: http/://popindex.princeton.edu/ j) research online: http://www.soc.surrey.ac.uk/socresonline 5. Economics a) Business history: http://www.cohums.ohio-state.edu/history/bus.htm b) business history reference source web page: http://www.itd.umd.edu/UMS/UMCP/MCK/GUIDES/business_history.html c) Economic History Services, http://cs.muohio.edu/ d) Italian economic history: http://www.unifi.it/centri/sise/welcome.htm e) NBER Macro-Economic History Database http://nber.harvard.edu f) United Nations Development Databases: http://www.undp.org 6. Education a) college & university web pages; access is also good through YAHOO http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/cdemello/univ.html b) Chronicle of Higher Education: http://chronicle.merit.edu abbreviated version free; full version to paid subscribers c) college classes on WWW: http://www.utexas.edu/world/lecture d) K-12: U Minnesota Ed School http://web66.coled.umn.edu/ e) K-12 geography: http://www.sendit.nodak.edu/sendit/geog.html f) urban history course: http://131.104.90.141 g) History of Education in US: http://sun1.iusb.edu/eduweb01/ 7. H-Net lists have their home pages at: http://h-net.msu.edu a) try for example H-FILM: http://h-net.msu.edu/~film 8. History: General a) Lynn Nelson & the folks at U Kansas have put together a wonderful guide to history sources. You select the item you want, click,and connect direct to it. http://history.cc.ukans.edu/history/ b) Association for History and Computing, Groningen, the Netherlands: http://grid.let.rug.nl/ahc/ c) Canadian Journal of History: full text articles on non-Canadian topics: http://www.usask.ca/history/cjh d) Early Church enyclopedia: http://www.evansville.edu/~ecoleweb/ e) Foreign Policy: http://www-scf.usc.edu/~sarantak/stuff.html f) French: Les programmes officiels d'Histoire des colleges et lycees francais sont disponibles sur http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/FJarraud g) German Social history: http://fub46.zedat.fu-berlin.de:8080/~aeimhof/ h) H-Net: http://h-net.msu.edu i) Hanover College: Historical texts and documents http://history.hanover.edu/texts.html a very ambitious approach to putting translated documents and secondary works on-line for undergraduate history classes j) History of Science/Technology/Medicine http://www.welch.jhu.edu/history/IOHMhome.html k) Labor history: http://www.dol.gov/dol/asp/public/programs/history/main.htm l) Medieval documents: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.html m) Historical Text Archive; worldwide, esp Latin America http://www.msstate.edu/Archives/History/index.html n) Social Studies & High School History: http://www.halcyon.com/howlevin/social.studies http://www.panix.com/~steel/ http://www.ncss.org/online o) Tennessee-Tech: with many additional links: HTTP://WWW.TNTECH.EDU/WWW/ACAD/HIST/HISTORY.HTML p) US/World History Standards: http:// neal.ctstateu.edu/history/world_history/archives/stndrds.html 1) full text: http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/nchs/ q) Victoria Research Web; 19c Britain http://www.indiana.edu/~victoria r) World War I documents: http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/ s) Yahoo index [semipopular] http://www.yahoo.com/text/Arts/Humanities/History/ 9. History: US a) 1950s course, & excerpts: http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/home.html b) American Social History Project, http://www.ashp.cuny.edu. c) Another good source from Virginia with many links: http://jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU/seminar/links.html d) Center for Military History (includes full-length books, esp the "Army Green Series" of official ww2 histories) http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg e) Chicago Historical Society http://www.chicagohs.org/ fancy stuff: http://www.chicagohs.org/fire/index.html f) Civil War: http://sunsite.unc.edu/ pub/academic/history/marshall/military/civil_war_usa/ g) Early American History: http://www.bluewater.com/earlyamerica/ h) Early National: E-Journal http://earlyamerica.com/review/ i) George Washington Papers http://pe.acc.virinia.edu/~gwpapers/ j) historical US documents: http://www.let.rug.nl/~welling/usa/ k) Immigration History Research Center (IHRC) U of Minnesota http://www.umn.edu/ihrc l) Indiana Historical Society http://www.ihs1830.org/ m) Kansas Historical Society http://history.cc.ukans.edu/heritage/kshs/kshs1.html n) Library of Virginia: http://leo.vsla.edu/lva/lva.html 600,000 images in colonial history & WW2 photos o) Martin Luther King project http://www-leland.stanford.edu/group/King/ p) Material religion: http://www.materialreligion.org q) New Deal Cartoons: http://www.wizvax.net/nisk_hs/ departments/social/fdr_html/FDRcartoons.html r) Old South: http://icg.harvard.edu/~hist1651 includes ICPSR census data on southern counties, 1790-1860 s) Thomas Jefferson in ATLANTIC MONTHLY http:// www.theatlantic.com/atlantic/issues/96oct/obrien/jefside.htm t) Truman Presidential Library http://sunsite.unc.edu/lia/president/truman.html u) Valley of the Shadow = Virgina, 1850s http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vshadow/vshadow2.html 10. History Departments/ Research Institutes/ Associations a) American Historical Review: http://www.indiana.edu/~amhrev b) Australian: http://www.unimelb.edu.au/infoserv c) Center for History & New Media, George Mason U: http://web.gmu.edu/chnm d) global list of all history depts, from George Mason U: http://www.gmu.edu/departments/history/research/depts.html e) IHR-Info (Institute for Historical Research), London: http://ihr.sas.ac.uk:8080/ihr/ihr0101.html [this is a well-respected British history center, NOT to be confused with a Holocaust denial operation in California that calls itself "The Institute for Historical Review"] f) Montreal U of : http://mistral.ERE.UMontreal.CA/~otisy/Departement.html g) Ohio State: http://www.cohums.ohio-state.edu/history/ h) Russian Academy of Sciences: http://www.ac.msk.su/RAS/oi.html i) U of Saskatchewan http://www.usask.ca/history 11. Humanities: start with http://h-net.msu.edu a) NCC: National Coordinating Committee weekly updates on US government & humanities http://h-net.msu.edu/~ncc/ncc95/ b) detailed guides, with evaluations of sites [from U Michigan Library students] http://www.lib.umich.edu/chouse/tree/human.html c) National Endowment for Humanities: http://www.neh.fed.us d) NEH activities by state: http://www.neh.fed.us/documents/new.html e) The Humanist Web http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/humanist.html f) T-AMLIT American Literature http://www.georgetown.edu/tamlit/info/tamlit_info.html g) UNESCO World Heritage List, pictures 450+ properties. http://www.cco.caltech.edu/~salmon/world.heritage.html h) 19c American women writers. http://www.clever.net/19cwww/ 12. Libraries, Archives; bibliography a) OPAC (On-Line Public Access Catalogs) Most major library OPACs are available. (Yahoo tracks them.) One of the best is the U of California system, with vast holdings and the ability to email searched back to you (MAIL TO username) and to subscribe to updates of new listings (UPDATE). Melvyl is not on WWW; you must use TELNET (answer "VT100" for terminal question) telnet melvyl.ucop.edu b) Archives (Britain & overseas) http://www.liv.ac.uk/~spw1/archives.htm c) Archives (US National Archives) http://www.nara.gov/nara/nail.html d) Articles: CARL has very complete guides to most journals (coverage from late 1980s to this week) http://www.carl.org/uncover/ also: telnet database.carl.org [select: terminal = vt100, "Uncover"] 1) REVEAL service: $20/year for TOC of 50 journals e) Harvard-Yenching Library/ Asian Studies http://www..fas.harvard.edu/~dellal/hylhome.html f) History bibliographies http://www.kaiwan.com/~lucknow/horus/horuslinks.html g) Law reviews http://www.findlaw.com/ h) Library of Congress: http://www.loc.gov/ i) Navy Department Library (many links): http://navy.library.net j) Revues Gophisto: tables of contents of numerous history journals http://mistral.ere.umontreal.ca/~ouellene/revues.html 13. News, newspapers, magazines, radio a) NewsLink Web page includes free links to several thousand newspapers, broadcasters, magazines, on-line news services, and other useful sites. http://www.newslink.org b) Electronic Newsstand: free TOC and free articles from many magazines. http://www.enews.com/ c) Australian Broadcasting Online http://www.abc.net.au/ d) BBC: http://www.bbcnc.org.uk e) Journal Graphics (75,000 news broadcasts on NPR and US networks since 1981; searchable; transcripts can be purchased) telnet DATABASE.CARL.ORG [select vt100, then 2 = Open Access Databases] f) popular history magazines: http://www.TheHistoryNet.com g) National Public Radio: http://www.npr.org real audio! h) Reuters reports. http://yahoo.com i) Times Higher Education Supplement: gopher.timeshigher.newsint.co.uk job ads: http://classified.the-times.co.uk:8080 j) US Network TV News archives: http://tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/ detailed, searchable abstracts of major news shows, 1968 to 1996 k) US Information Agency [daily news] http://www.usia.gov 14. Political Science a) Americana Encyclopedia articles on politics: http://www.grolier.com/presidents/ea/ea_toc.html b) American Political Science Association http://www2.dgsys.com/~apsa c) ICPSR http://icpsr.umich.edu d) Political Science research http://www.cudenver.edu/psrp/psrp.html e) Political science conference papers & abstracts http://www.trenton.edu/~psm f) political science department home pages http://spirit.lib.uconn.edu/PoliSci/polisci.htm g) Roper Center [polls] http://www.lib.uconn.edu/RoperCenter/ h) Supreme Court (famous cases) http://oyez.at.nwu.edu/oyez.html 15. Popular Culture, Museums a) ASEC (American Studies Electronic Crossroads) http://www.georgetown.edu/crossroads/crossroads.html b) British:http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/archive/other/museums.html c) French Ministry of Culture http://www.culture.fr d) Internet Movie Database: http://us.imdb.org/Movies/credits.html e) Japanese popular culture: http://www.csuohio.edu/history/japan.html f) Library of Congress "American Memory" [photos, sound, film] http://lcweb2.loc.gov/amhome.html g) Local historical societies http://www.ihs1830.org/lhsresor.htm h) Museums, guides to http://cwis.usc.edu/lacmnh/other.html http://www.usc.edu/lacmnh/webmuseums i) On-line exhibits: http://www.neh.fed.us/documents/intro.html j) Popular Culture: http://stripe.colorado.edu/~h-pcaaca/h-pcaaca.html 16. Publishers a) American Association of University Presses: http://aaup.pupress.princeton.edu:70/ or http://press-gopher.uchicago.edu b) a commercial bookstore: http://melville.books.com/ c) Books: chapters on-line 1) Dial-A-Book Chapter One: http://www.psi.net/chapterone/ 2) Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/ The Book Review section features the first chapter of hundreds of recent fiction and nonfiction books, plus the POST's review. http:// www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/books/books.htm d) Copyright: http://fairuse.stanford.edu/ recent cases: http://www.perkinscoie.com/resource/cases.htm e) Johns Hopkins U.P. journals http://muse.jhu.edu/ f) Links to hundreds of publishers: http://www.lights.com/publisher/ g) Scholarly book reviews: http://h-net2.msu.edu/~books/ -------------------------------------------------------------------