Resources in the Humanities

UCSB Library Humanities Collections

• Art & Architecture
• Classics
• Dance
• Dramatic Art
• English
• Film & Television
• French
• German
• History
• Italian
• Linguistics
• Music
• Philosophy
• Religion
• Spanish & Portuguese
• U.S. History

Humanities Centers & Organizations

• Americans for the Arts

  Americans for the Arts is a national support group for issues of public policy relating to arts and culture. This site features information and news on arts funding, education, advocacy, arts awareness resources, and links to other arts internet resources.

• The Center for the Book in the Library of Congress

  The Center for the Book was established by law in 1977 to stimulate public interest in books, reading, libraries and literacy. The website contains information on its State Centers Affiliates; Community of the Book Organizations; Book History/Book Art Programs; Reading Promotions; Book Fairs, Literary Festivals, other Book Events; & Book Lists.

• Humanities Division at Swarthmore

  Humanities programs and resources at Swarthmore

• The Middle English Compendium

  The Middle English Compendium has been designed to offer easy access to and inerconnectivity between three major Middle English electronic resources: an electronic version of the Middle English Dictionary, a HyperBibliography of Middle English prose and verse, and related electronic resources.

• The National Endowment for the Humanities

  The NEH is a federal agency that supports learning in history, literature, philosophy, and other areas of the humanities. We fund research, education, museum exhibitions, documentaries, preservation, and activities in the states.

• National Humanities Institute

  NHI promotes research, publishing, and teaching in the humanities. The NHI website includes an online journal, NHI publications & research listings, an electronic bulletin board, and links to other humanities research on the net.

• University of California, Berkeley, College of Letters & Science, Humanities Division
  
• UCLA Humanities

  The Website of the University of California, Los Angeles, Humanities Departments, inculding electronic journals and online computing resources.

• UCSC Humanities Division

  The Website of the University of California, Santa Cruz, Humanities Departments, including humanities projects & events.

Megasites

• Art Access

  Art Access presents original art, poetry, reviews and literature, as well as monthly listings for the visual arts, dance, music and theater in Washington State.

• ArtsWire

  Arts Wire contains a weekly digest of Arts news; a database of cultural resources on the Web; information on Arts events from several U.S. cities; periodically changing "tours" of Web sites curated by Arts Wire staff or guest curators; links to the Arts Wire Gopher and other arts resources in gopherspace; pages authored by individual artists as well as arts organizations.

• CultureNet

  CultureNet provides links to Candian artistic and cultural organization, and links to other Canadian cultural networks.

• Galaxy Guide to Humanities
• WWW Virtual Library: Humanities Links
• Voice of the Shuttle

  Possibly the most comprehensive source for humanities research on the net

• Yahoo! Arts
• Yahoo! Society and Culture
  

Popular Culture

• South African Independent Film

Online Multimedia Projects & Exhibits

• Alive TV

  Alive TV presents the work of artists whose "work speaks to us through its unflinching portrayal of challenges overcome through sheer human spirit".

• Electric Guitar
• The Electronic Academic Village

  An intriguing mixture of texts, hypermedia projects, technical and research reports, & other projects which apply technology to the arts, humanities and social sciences. Developed by the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, University of Virginia.

• Humanities-Interactive

  Presented by Texas Humanities Resource Center, Texas Council for the Humanities, this site will present fifty web exhibitions that will cover the scope of human civilization and culture in graphical presentations. Current exhibits include: "Border Studies"; "Bonfire of Liberties: Censorship of the Humanities"; "Newscast from the Past: June 15, 1215" MPEG movie clips.

• UCSC Humanities Division

  See "Special Projects" for links to internet projects on Dante's Divine Comedy; Dickens; CineMedia; Satyajit Ray; California Writing Project; The Virtual Mexico Project. et al.

Publishers, Booksellers & Library Catalogs

• AAUP Online Catalog of University Press Publications

  The Association of American University Presses Online Catalog currently lists over 75,000 book titles from over 60 presses. AAUP enhances Library of Congress records with price, print status, and descriptive text for each item (as available). The AAUP Catalog can be searched several ways, including author, title, and standard Library of Congress subject keywords.

• UCSB Library's Infosurf: Other Libraries, Other Campuses

  UCSB Library's Links to online catalogs from other local, national & international libraries.

• Women's Publications, Publishers, & Bookstores

  Resources from WomensNet

• Yahoo! Links to the Publishing Industry

Online Text, Journals & News Sources

• ALEX

  Alex was originally conceived by Hunter Monroe in 1993-4 as a catalog and access point to electronic texts. The catalog contains roughly 2,000 texts mostly on gopher servers. Maintenance of the Alex Catalog has been suspended until adequate funding is found. The catalog is accessed by author, date, host, language, subject, or title. This site also contains a section with information about cataloging Internet resources.

• Anthropoetics: The Electronic Journal of Generative Anthropology

  Generative anthropology (GA) is a new mode of critical thinking that applies the criterion of intellectual parsimony to the study of cultural phenomena. Anthropoetics is dedicated to rethinking both the impasse between the humanities, imprisoned in the "always already" of our cultural systems, and the empirical social sciences.

• Arts Wire CURRENT

  Arts Wire CURRENT features news updates on social, economic, philosophical, and political issues affecting the arts and culture.

• Artvoice.com

  Buffalo New York's Alternative Arts News, features, articles, visuals and events listings on poetry, fiction, film, theatre, jazz and galleries.

• Australian Humanities Review (AHR)

  AHR is a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary electronic journal published quarterly with regular updates every two weeks.

• BBC Online
• Chronicle for Higher Education
• Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities

  The Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities is dedicated to helping people access and implement research projects using electronic texts. The Project is a joing effort at Princeton and Rutgers

• CETH Directory of Electronic Text Centers
• Cultural Resource Management

  CRM is published by the National Park Service. The site contains information and articles on the history, significance and issues around park resources, preservations and related local, national and international initiatives, training and conferences.

• National Public Radio
• The On-line Books Page

  An index to over 1200 on-line books and other documents, as well as directories & archives of on-line texts; and exhibits.

• The On-line Books Page presents BANNED BOOKS ON-LINE
• Postmodern Culture

  A journal in both print and electronic form, PMC contains critical essays, creative work, reviews on postmodern culture.

• Project Bartleby

  Columbia University's online publishing project. Includes full text of selected poetry, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, inaugural addresses of U.S. presidents and more. Texts may be searched by words or phrases.

• Project Muse

  Full text access to 40+ scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and math.

Events & Conferences

• Australian Humanities Review - Conferences

Humanities and the UCSB Library

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