This list will be undergoing perpetual construction and reorganization. Many more links still to come. Last update: 31 March 2005
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The. 2004. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. 1 March 2005 <http://www.mellon.org>
A foundation that provides grant-based funding in the areas of higher education, museums and art conservation, performing arts, conservation and the environment, and public affairs. The site’s links include the foundation’s annual reports and grant summaries; an overview of grants related to technology in the humanities and social sciences from 1997-2003 can be found here.
Anthropology Digital Library. 30 March 2005. Academic Info. 31 March 2005 <http://www.academicinfo.net/anthlibrary.html>
Anthropology links including papers, articles, journals, digital libraries -- from a commercial source.
Budapest Open Access Initiative. 2004. [none] 20 March 2005 <http://www.soros.org/openaccess/>
The Initiative began in 2001, and currently has 3,963 signatures from 3,658 individuals and 305 organizations
California Digital Library eScholarship. 2005. University of California. 20 March 2005 <http://www.cdlib.org/programs/escholarship.html>
Elements of the CDL eScholarship initiative include eScholarship editions (currently over 1,400 UC press titles), eScholarship publications, and the eScholarship Repository (free and open-access)
Center for Research Libraries. 18 February 2005. Center for Research Libraries. 15 March 2005. <http://www.crl.edu/>
CRL is a consortium of North American universities, colleges, and independent research libraries. The consortium acquires and preserves traditional and digital resources for research and teaching and makes them available to member institutions through interlibrary loan and electronic delivery. CRL also links to its members, projects, and programs.
Centre for Digital Humanities Innovation, The. 11 January 2005. Malaspina University 31 March 2005. <http://cdhi.mala.bc.ca/> The Centre for Digital Humanities Innovation, affiliated with Malaspina University in Canada . The center's projects associated with humanities computing include: electronic publishing and the re-purposing of materials previously stored in other archival forms; the use of automated means to represent print-, visual-, and audio-based material in tagged and searchable electronic textual form; and sophisticated textual analysis processes. The site also has a strong list of Best Practices.
Connexions 14 March 2005. Rice University. 20 March 2005 <http://cnx.rice.edu/>
Connexions is an environment for collaboratively developing, freely sharing, and rapidly publishing scholarly content on the Web. All content is free to use and reuse under the Creative Commons "attribution" license. Credentials are not required in order to contribute content.
Creative Commons. January 2005. Creative Commons, Inc. 1 March 2005 <http://creativecommons.org>
A free set of copyright licenses, available to the general public, that offer a range of protections for all publishable media. Uses RDF metadata.
Cox, John and Laura Cox. “Scholarly Publishing Practice: the ALPSP report on academic journal publishers’ policies and practices in online publishing.” The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers. June 2003. ALPSP. 28 February 2005 <http://www.alpsp.org/publications/pub7.htm>
Findings and executive summary of a study of the policies and practices of international academic not-for-profit and commercial journals. The executive summary that 72% of Humanities and Social Sciences journals were available online, and finds large publishers to be more amenable overall to online publishing.
Digital Archive Network for Anthropology and World Heritage. 30 August 2004. North Dakota State University. <http://www.dana-wh.net/>
The digital archive network for anthropology and world heritage is a distributed database network dedicated to the preservation and study of human biological and cultural heritage. As of the last visit, only the archaeology sector was active.
Digital South Asia Library. 9 November 2004. University of Chicago. 15 March 2005 <http://dsal.uchicago.edu/>
The University of Chicago's Digital South Asia library, which includes links to reference resources, images, maps, statistics, books and journals, and more.
Dublin Core Metadata Initiative. 2005. [none] 20 March 2005 <http://dublincore.org/>
"An open forum engaged in the development of interoperable online metadata standards that support a broad range of purposes and business models"; among the most widely used of all metadata standards
Etext Center. 18 January 2005. University of Virginia. 15 March 2005 <http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/>
The Etext Center at the University of Virginia Library has a dual mission: to build and maintain an internet-accessible collection of SGML and XML-encoded texts and images, and to build and maintain user communities adept at the creation and use of these materials. The center currently maintains a huge collection of online texts and images.
Google Scholar Beta. 1 Mar. 2005. Google, Inc. 1 Mar. 2005 <http://scholar.google.com>
A search engine that indexes all manner of scholarly publications, including journal articles, pre-proof manuscripts, and books. Google Scholar provides links directly to articles where available, to the publishers or institutions responsible for the material, and to library catalog holdings, referenced by zip code. The site’s indexing robots crawl the web continually, providing near-immediate access to information; however, if materials are not formatted and tagged correctly, the bots may miss them and they will not be indexed. Google Scholar does provide information on how to ensure that materials are or are not indexed.
Humanities and Social Sciences Net. 30 March 2005. Michigan State University. 31 March 2005 <http://www.h-net.org/>
The Humanities and Social Sciences Net online maintains edited lists and web sites and publishes peer reviewed essays, multimedia materials, and discussion for colleagues and the interested public. The computing heart of H-Net resides at MATRIX: The Center for Humane Arts, Letters, and Social Sciences Online, Michigan State University , but content comes from a wide spectrum of sources.
Humanities Computing Seminar. 10 August 2002. University of Virginia. 31 March 2005 <http://www.iath.virginia.edu/hcs/>
Website of the 1999 Interdisciplinary Seminar “Is Humanities Computing an Academic Discipline?". Links to papers and presentations, as well as to the description of the UVA Master's in Digital Humanities and the Final Report for the Digital Humanities Curriculum Seminar.
JSTOR 10 February 2005. Journal Storage: The Scholarly Journal Archive. 20 March 2005 <http://www.jstor.org>
An online archive of scholarly journal literature. Total JSTOR Participants as of January 21, 2005: 2,288; total journals online: 457.
Lester: Learning Science and Technology Repository. 23 February 2005. Rice University. 1 March 2005 <http://lester.rice.edu>
An online database of learning science and technology projects, programs, researchers and organizations. Contributors can add or edit information about their own projects, or suggest that information regarding other ventures be considered for inclusion. LESTER is affiliated with ETRAC.
Monograph and Serial Costs in ARL Libraries, 1986-2000 22 August 2002. Association of Research Libraries. 20 March 2005 <http://www.arl.org/stats/arlstat/graphs/2000t2.html>
Graphical representations of monograph and serial costs in ARL libraries from 1986 to 2000
National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage. 2003. National Initiative for a Networked Cultual Heritage. 15 March 2005 <http://www.ninch.org/>
The National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH) is a diverse coalition of organizations created to assure leadership from the cultural community in the evolution of the digital environment. Links include a large collection of best practices, member groups, and programs.
Open Archives Initiative. 7 March 2005. The Open Archives Initiative. 31 March 2005 <http://www.openarchives.org/>
The Initiative stems from the need to enable access to Web-accessible material through interoperable repositories for metadata sharing, publishing and archiving. Currently used in a wide variety of applications, including Google and the CDL eScholarship repository
Report on the case for institutional repositories 25 January 2005 The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition 20 March 2005 <http://www.arl.org/sparc/IR/ir.html>
The SPARC report in support of institutional repositories as "a strategic response to systemic problems in the existing scholarly journal system".
Resource and Documentation Online. 11 May 2004. Prince Georges Community College. 15 March 2005. <http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/>
An online version of the Hacker style guide, with many links to humanities and social sciences resources.
Sarai. 17 March 2004. Columbia University. 15 March 2005 <http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/southasia/cuvl/>
Sarai, the South Asia Resource Access on the Internet; a large collection of South Asian links and online resources.
Socioweb. 14 March 2005. Blairworks. 31 March 2005. <http://www.socioweb.com/~markbl/socioweb/>
A large collection of links to sociology resources (573 at last visit), including university departments, associations, surveys and statistics, and more.
Voice of the Shuttle. 30 March 2005. University of California at Santa Barbara. 31 March 2005. <http://vos.ucsb.edu/>
A plethora of humanities (and other) resources, including a number of online texts. One of the most comprehensive sites currently available. Online since 1994.
UCLA Center for Digital Humanities. 21 November 2004. University of California at Los Angeles. 31 March 2005 <http://www.cdh.ucla.edu/index2.html>
The UCLA Center for Digital Humanities provides digital infrastructure for the humanities, primarily at UCLA.
UMI Proquest Digital Dissertations. 2005. Proquest. 31 March 2005. <http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/>
UMI Proquest Digital Dissertations; provides abstracts, citations, and 24-page PDF previews of all titles in the Dissertation Abstract database (for subscribed users; the majority of dissertation resources are available to individuals as well)
Ware, Mark. April 2004. “Institutional Repositories and Scholarly Publishing. “ALPSP Journal
17(2) : pp.115-124. 1 March 2005. <http://iris.ingentaselect.com/vl=1371549/cl=78/ nw=1/rpsv/cgi-bin/linker?ini=alpsp&reqidx=/cw/alpsp/09531513/v17n2/s6/p115>
An article investigating the function of the institutional repository following the launch of MIT’s Dspace and the impact of their expansion on scholarly publishing. References included the ALPSP publisher’s survey, the SPARC article on IRs, eprints.org, Dspace.
Wikiversity. 15 March 2005. The Wikimedia Foundation. 20 March 2005. <http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikiversity>
Similar in concept to Connexions, Wikiversity is a free open learning environment and research community. Content, both course and otherwise, may be posted by anyone, regardless of credentials. Classes are defined entirely by the content creators.