Arts and Humanities Web Pages
A Recent Compilation of Noteworthy and Useful
Web Sites
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by Barbara Meagher
- HUMBUL GATEWAY
http://info.ox.ac.uk/oucs/humanities/international.html
Maintained at Englands Oxford University, the Humbul Gateway
links to humanities-related web pages around the world. The page
includes general resources and search facilities such as bulletin boards,
electronic publishing, dictionaries, reference works and libraries on the
web. There is also a subject catalog that includes anthropology,
archaeology, languages and linguistics, music and philosophy, among other
liberal arts topics.
- ENGLISH SERVER
http://english-server.hss.cmu.edu/
The Server is a member-run cooperative service of Carnegie
Mellons Universitys English Department. It offers world-wide web, ftp,
e-mail, gopher, mailing list and listserv services. The primary function
of the Server is to publish texts in the arts and humanities. The
collections include art, architecture, drama, fiction, poetry, history,
political theory, cultural studies, philosophy, womens studies and music.
- VOICE OF THE SHUTTLE
http://humanitas.ucsb.edu/
The site is maintained by an English professor at the University
of California, Santa Barbara. It is a comprehensive directory of
humanities research resources. Subjects range from anthropology and
history to linguistics, philosophy, postindustrial business theory, and
womens studies. The Shuttle includes links to related journals,
libraries, publishers and reference and teaching resources. There are
mirror versions of the site in the United Kingdom, Italy and Japan.
- NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES
http://www.neh.fed.us/
The NEH is a federal agency of the U.S. government that makes
grants for projects in history, literature, philosophy and other areas of
the humanities. The agency funds research and writing of scholarly
texts, education, museum exhibitions, documentaries, preservation,
television and radio programs and translations of important works in the
humanities. The site provides information about how to apply for a
grant, deadlines, recent awards, NEH funded activities in the states and
information about NEH staff, review process and publications.
- CETH (CENTER FOR ELECTRONIC TEXTS IN THE
HUMANITIES)
http://www.ceth.rutgers.edu/
CETH is co-sponsored by Princeton and Rutgers Universities. The
site aims to serve all U.S. scholars, researchers and teachers involved
with the creation and use of electronic text applications in the
humanities. There are links to information on CETH projects, resources,
seminars and services. There is also discussion of the beginnings of
humanities-related computing, developments in concordancing, databases
and statistics, and the Text Encoding Initiative.
- H-NET (HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES ONLINE)
http://h-net2.msu.edu/
H-Net is supported by Michigan State University and the National
Endowment for the Humanities. It is an international cooperative
initiative in humanities and social science computing. H-Net sponsors 81
free electronic, interactive discussion lists covering many fields and
disciplines and reaches over 48,000 subscribers in more than 70
countries. The site also offers list archives, links to related sources,
a calendar of conferences and events and a complete archive of H-Net
media and book reviews all linked to a searchable database.
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