Resources for the Humanities

Archives (go here first)

Research-It!: one-stop reference desk
On-Line Reference Works
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Librarians' Index to the Internet

 

How to Cite Internet Sources

Electronic References & Scholarly Citations of Internet Sources (WWW Virtual Library)
A brief citation guide by M.E. Page
MLA-Style Citations of Electronic Sources
Citing Electronic Sources (a directory)

 

Writing

Writing Aids On-Line
Purdue On-Line Writing Lab
The Oxford English Dictionary Online
Bartlett's Familar Quotations
The Elements of Style by Strunk (note:  an earlier edition than the famous Strunk & White)

 

News:    The New York Times

 

Books & Texts & Humanities Material On-Line

Electronic Text and Humanities Computing Centers and Archives (a mega-list)
The Online Book Initiative (alphabetizes by first name?!)
The On-Line Books Page
The English Server--lots of Humanities material & texts
Alex online books project
Voice of the Shuttle Web Page for Humanities Research
Gateway to World History
Academic Journals from Johns Hopkins University Press
Guide to Classics Resources including Classical Authors Online
CCAT Text Archives (Penn)

 

Books (old-fashioned books, a new way)

          Amazon (on-line bookstore)
Bibliofind: search inventories of used books for sale!!
Interloc: search for used books
Mxbf:  search for used books (a meta-searcher)
American Association of University Presses
Bookwire (book info. of all kinds)
List of Bookstores in New Jersey
List of Bookstores in New York State

John R. Lenz, Drew University

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