World-Wide Web Resources
Humanities

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  • American Literature,
    including Writing information.
  • Classical Resources
  • English Literature,
    including Writing information.
  • Film
  • Fine Arts
  • French Language & Literature
  • German Language & Literature
  • History
  • Humanities, General
  • Italian Language & Literature
  • Japanese
  • Languages
  • Linguistics
  • Literature, General
  • Mythology & Folklore
  • Philosophy
  • Popular Culture Resources
  • Religion
  • Slavic Language & Literature
  • Spanish Resources
  • Theater

    • Humanities, General

  • ACADEMIA, a magazine for university, academic, and research librarians. From Baker & Taylor.

  • Aesop's Fables

  • American Council of Learned Societies, non-profit federation of 60 national learned societies in the humanities and social sciences. The purpose of the Council, as set forth in its constitution, is "the advancement of humanistic studies in all fields of learning in the humanities and social sciences and the maintenance and strengthening of relations among national societies devoted to such studies."

  • American Humanities Index, bibliographic references to over 700 literary, scholarly and creative journals published in the United States and Canada from 1975 forward. Produced by Whitston Publishing. Available through EBSCOhost Web. Accessible via campus machines. Also available off-campus for UK faculty, students and staff; follow these proxy server access instructions.

  • American Memory Project, Historical Collections for the National Digital Library.

  • American Periodicals Series Online (1741 - 1900+), offering scanned and searchable fulltext images from over 1,100 American periodcals. Accessible off-campus for UK faculty, students and staff by following these proxy server access instructions.

  • Ancient World Web

  • Arts and Humanities Data Service, collects, catalogues, manages, preserves and promotes the re-use of scholarly digital resources. Free, but requires registration.

  • Australian Humanities Review, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal, published only in electronic form, which aims to present an eclectic range of voices and discourse from the Humanities in Australia, as well as providing a bridge between the academy and the wider community, worldwide. The journal is regularly updated and encourages interactive discussion and feedback, to be published in a moderated e-muse section. The journal also provide a regularly updated information section.

  • Bibliographical Society of America

  • Bobst Library's Electronic Text Center at New York University.

  • Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, listing the world's myths, characters, and proverbs in a searchable index, illustrated with examples, quotes, and etymologies.

  • Brief Citation Guide for Internet Sources in History and the Humanities, by Melvin E. Page.

  • Buddhism, directory of information about Buddhism. Provides access to information on Buddhist art, classes, coursework, journals, periodicals, texts, and reference materials. Includes the electronic Buddhist Text initiative, Buddhist literature, and an introduction to Buddhism. Features the Buddhism Virtual Library, CyberSangha, Dzogchen Foundation, the Dunhuang Web, and other Buddhism-related sites.

  • Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities

  • Centre for Computer-Aided Egyptological Research, at Utrecht University, in the Netherlands. Develops general methods and programs, and provides world-wide support, for the use of computers in Egyptology. Notes that activities include developing multilingual thesauri, field lists, and directions for standardizing data input; and developing and releasing publications and computer programs, such as hieroglyphic text processing programs. Provides links to further information about the CCER, products, news, and Egyptological lists and databases.

  • Centre for Computing in the Humanities and Social Sciences [CHASS], University of Toronto.

  • Common Knowledge, multidisciplinary journal of Oxford University Press "dedicated to undermining all foundational structures that impede agreement."

  • Computing in the Humanities and Social Sciences (CHASS), at the University of Toronto.

  • Computing in the Humanities Working Papers, interdisciplinary series of refereed publications on computer-assisted research serving as a vehicle for an intermediary stage at which questions of computer methodology in relation to the corpus at hand are of interest to the scholar before the computer disappears into the background.

  • Critical Inquiry, an interdisciplinary journal devoted to publishing the best critical thought in the arts and humanities. with current criticism on a variety of topics within literature, art, architecture, film, history, philosophy, and music.

  • Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des métiers et des arts, presented by the ARTFL Project. Accessible via campus computers. Also available off-campus for UK faculty, students and staff; follow these proxy server access instructions.

  • Directory of Scholarly and Professional E-Conferences

  • Discovering Online Resources Across the Humanities, A Practical Implementation of the Dublin Core.

  • Dissertations and Theses in the Humanities, references and resources for electronic theses and dissertations in the humanities, including a directory of such work in progress.

  • Egyptological Bibliography, published annually by the International Association of Egyptologists in cooperation with the Netherlands Institute for the Near East.

  • Electronic Text Center, at the University of Virginia.

  • The English Server, at Carnegie Mellon University. Publishes humanities texts to the Internet.

  • European Library, gateway to 43 European Libraries.

  • Funding for Research

  • General Humanities Resources, from the University of Virginia.

  • Germanic History & Culture, collection of links which explore the history and cultures of various Germanic peoples from ancient times through the middle ages.

  • Great Books Home Page

  • The Master Works of Western Civilization, presents several lists of works along with links to the texts available on the Web.

  • A Guide for Writing Research Papers, based on Modern Language Association (MLA) Documentation.

  • The Harlem Renaissance, celebrates the intellectual creativity that blossomed in the African-American community in Harlem during the 1920s.

  • Harlem Renaissance, from the CHICO Project, in collaboration with the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. At the core of the exhibit is an online presentation of the Schomburg's portfolio, "Harlem 1900-1940", featuring over 30 archival photographs with accompanying text and lesson plans for educators. The website extends this portfolio with an interactive timeline and database of artists, writers and musicians.

  • H-Net, center for humanities on the Internet, including online book reviews and links to resources.

  • The Human Rights Source, from Amnesty International - Georgia Tech. Directory of human rights related sites on the Web. Categories include women's rights, indigenous people's rights, family issues, and international issues.

  • Human Rights

  • Humanist Discussion Group, from Princeton University.

  • Humanities Text Initiative, from the University of Michigan.

  • The Humbul Gateway, International Resources for the Humanities.

  • Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, University of Virginia.

  • Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages & Renaissance. non-profit research project with partners in Toronto, Canada (the headquarters), New York City, and Tempe, Arizona. The goal of Iter is to increase access to all published materials pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700), through the creation of online bibliographic databases. The Journals Database includes approximately 230,000 records (as of October 2000) from secondary materials published in over 400 journals, from 1859 to the present. Proxy Access.

  • The Joseph Campbell Foundation

  • JSTOR, journal backfile digitizing and storage project with access to the backfiles of journals in the humanities, social sciences and mathematics. Searchable. Accessible from campus computers and off-campus via the proxy server.

  • The Koninklijke Bibliotheek, digital adaptation of "A Hundred Highlights from the Koninklijke Bibliotheek," published in 1994 and containing a selection of manuscripts, printed works, book bindings, and specimens from the paper history collection in the Department of Special Collections. Explanatory notes are provided by the staff of the department. Also extensively discusses the Koninklijke Bibliotheek itself, located in the Netherlands.

  • LION Complete (Literature Online), searchable library of over 300,000 works of English and American literature. From Chadwyck-Healey. Accessible from campus computers and off-campus via the proxy server.

  • MLA-Style Citations of Electronic Sources, endorsed by the Alliance for Computers & Writing.

  • Modern Language Association

  • National Endowment for the Arts

  • National Endowment for the Humanities

  • The National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH), "broad coalition of arts, humanities and social science organizations formed to assure the fullest possible participation of the cultural sector in the new digitally networked environment."

  • NetSERF: The Internet Connection for Medieval Resources.

  • Dictionary of Old English Corpus, available through the Humanities Text Initiative for University of Kentucky faculty, staff & students.

  • Ojibwe Language and Culture, Native-American group that today occupies Southern Canada and the north central United States. Presents essays, a Ojibwe language tutorial, cross-cultural materials and a bibliography of future references.

  • Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd Edition. Click on "ENTER OED ONLINE." Accessible from campus computers and off-campus via the proxy server.

  • Past Masters fulltext databases include the following:

    Primary Sources Databases:

  • St. Anselm (Opera Omnia)
  • Aquinas (collected works)
  • Aristotle (complete works)
  • St. Augustine (works in translation)
  • St. Augustine (Opera Omnia)
  • Austen, Jane (Letters)
  • Austin, J. L. (John Langshaw): Works
  • Ayer, A. J. (Alfred Jules): Works
  • Bentham, Jeremy (collected works)
  • Bentham, Jeremy (correspondence)
  • Berkeley, George (works)
  • British Philosophy: 1600-1900 (includes Hobbes, Locke, Berkeley, Hume)
  • Brontë, Charlotte (Letters)
  • Burney, Fanny (Journals & Letters)
  • Calvin, John (Works & Correspondence)
  • Chesterton, G. K. (Collected Works
  • Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (Collected Letters)
  • Collingwood, R. G. (Philosophical Texts)
  • Continental Rationalists (Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz)
  • Darwin, Charles (works)
  • Davidson, Donald (Inquiries and Essays)
  • Descartes (Oeuvres Complètes de René Descartes)
  • Dewey, John (Collected Works)
  • Dickens, Charles (Letters)
  • Dewey, John (Correspondence)
  • Eighteenth Century Correspondence (Contains 48 volumes of correspondence of important figures in eighteenth century England, all from Oxford University Press.)
  • Fichte, Johann Gottlieb (Sämmtliche Werke und Nachlass)
  • Gladstone, William (Diaries)
  • Hardy, Thomas (Collected Letters)
  • Hegel, G. W. F. (OUP translations)
  • Hegel, G. W. F. (Werke II)
  • Hume, David (Complete Works and Correspondence)
  • Kant, Immanuel (Hauptwerke and Philosophische Briefe und Vorlesungsnachschriften)
  • Kierkegaard, Søren (Journals and Papers and Samlede Værker)
  • Knox, John (Works)
  • Leibniz, G. W. (Philosophische Schriften)
  • Locke, John (Philosophical Works and Selected Correspondence)
  • Luther, Martin (Sermons)
  • Malthus, Thomas Robert (Works)
  • Mansfield, Katherine (Collected Letters)
  • Marx, Karl and Frederick Engels (Collected Works)
  • Modern Era: 1800-1950 (Contains 40 volumes of correspondence from important figures in nineteenth and twentieth century England, all from Oxford University Press.)
  • Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm (Werke Historisch-kritische Ausgabe)
  • William of Ockham (The Work of Ninety Days)
  • Pierce, Charles Sanders (Collected Papers and Published Works, Vol. 1)
  • Plato (Collected Dialogues)
  • Poinsot, John [John of St. Thomas] (Tractatus de Signis)
  • Political Philosophy (Machiavelli to Mill)
  • Pope, Alexander (Correspondence)
  • Romantic Age, The (Correspondence)
  • Santayana, George (Works)
  • Sidgwick, Henry (Complete Works & Select Correspondence)
  • Smith, Adam (Works and Correspondence)
  • Spencer, Herbert (Complete Works)
  • Swift, Jonathan (Correspondence)
  • Tennyson, Alfred Lord (Letters)
  • Utilitarians, The (Bentham, Mill, Sidgwick)
  • Weber, Max (Gesammelte Werke und Schriften)
  • Wittgenstein, Ludwig (includes Collected Works, Letters, Lectures, Conversations, Memoirs, Nachlass, Published Works, Tagebücher und Briefe & Texts and Contexts)
  • Wordsworth, Dorothy & William (Collected Letters)
  • Yeats, William Butler (Collected Letters)

    Reference Databases:

  • Motif-Index of Folk Literature (revised & enlarged edition)
  • Oxford Classical Dictionary
  • Oxford Duden German-English Dictionary

    Accessible via campus computers. Also available off-campus for UK faculty, students and staff; follow these proxy server access instructions.


  • Patrologia Latina Database (PLD), electronic version of the first edition of Jacques-Paul Migne's Patrologia Latina, published between 1844 and 1855, and the four volumes of indexes published between 1862 and 1865. The Patrologia Latina comprises the works of the Church Fathers from Tertullian in 200 AD to the death of Pope Innocent III in 1216. From Chadwyck Healey. Accessible from campus computers and off-campus via the proxy server.

  • PeaceNet, serving organizations and individuals working for positive change in the areas of peace, social and economic justice, human rights and the struggle against racism.

  • Periodical Contents Index Full Text (PCI Full Text), index to the contents of thousands of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences, from their first issues to 1995. Every article is indexed. PCI Full Text currently indexes articles in 3,880 journals (as of April 2002). Full text currently for 200 journals. From Chadwyck-Healey. Accessible from campus computers and off-campus via the proxy server.

  • Postmodern Culture, published by North Carolina State University, Oxford University Press, and the University of Virginia's Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities.

  • Project Muse, from Johns Hopkins University Press, provides access to the fulltext of the Press's 40+ scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics. You may either read individual journals or conduct searches across journals. The number of issues available electronically varies. Accessible from campus machines or off-campus for UK faculty, students and staff by following these proxy server access instructions.

  • Qualitative Research Resources on the Internet, project dedicated to providing researchers, clinicians, teachers, and students with on-line access to a collection of qualitative research sites and materials available through the World Wide Web. Papers, dissertations, and syllabi are just included.

  • The Quarterly Black Review of Books, site that reviews the latest in Black fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and children's books. Also includes a feature section as well as a guide to Black classics by author, a listing of works of great Black writers that includes W.E.B. DuBois, Langston Hughes, Maya Angelou, and Alice Walker.

  • Raven's Tsa-La-Gi Page, featuring topics of interest to Native Americans, especially those of Cherokee ancestry. Includes information on Native American languages, literature, and culture. Includes links to a Cherokee alphabet file (GIF format, 201K), other pages of interest to Native Americans, and literature references.

  • Related Readings in the Humanities, from the University of Virginia.

  • Research in Computing for Humanities

  • Research Institute for the Humanities, at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

  • Scandinavian Cultures, providing access to Viking Culture and Norse civilization resources, the Project Runeberg database for classic Scandinavian literature, and OLDNORSENET. A service of Labyrinth.

  • Scholarly Journals Distributed Via the World-Wide Web, compiled by the University of Houston Libraries. Provides links to established Web-based Scholarly Journals that offer access to English language article files without requiring user registration or fees.

  • Teaching with Technology, focuses on humanities education (at all levels) but includes a wider variety of examples of ways technology, especially the WWW and the Internet, is being used in classrooms.

  • Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (Online TLG), provides fulltext of Greek texts from Homer to the fall of Byzantium in A.D. 1453. All Online TLG users must create a personal account. Links are available for loading Greek fonts onto your personal computer. Available on campus machines and off-campus to UK-affiliates via the proxy server.

  • 21stC, from Columbia University. Magazine dedicated to university research and the ideas that research generates. Covers all fields in the sciences and humanities. Emphasizes interdisciplinary and futuristic work.

  • Voice of the Shuttle, Web Pages for the Humanities Research. From the University of California - Santa Barbara.

  • WATCH: Writers, Artists, and Their Copyright Holders. From the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin.


    • This page was last updated 15 June 2005. To suggest additions or corrections to this list, send mail to Brad Carrington at bcarring@uky.edu.

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