ADAM: Art, Design, Architecture and Media Information Gateway
http://adam.ac.uk/
Developer: ADAM Consortium
"A searchable catalogue of 1633 Internet resources that have been carefully selected and catalogued by professional librarians for the benefit of the UK Higher Education community."

AHDS (Arts and Humanities Data Service)
http://ahds.ac.uk/ 
Developer: AHDS 
Provides access to information resources relevant to the management of digital resources and has a gateway to a distributed service comprising: The Archaeology Data Service, The History Data Service, The Oxford Text Archive and  The Performing Arts Data Service. 

Arts & Humanities
http://www.clearinghouse.net/arthum.html
Developer: Argus Clearinghouse
Moderated list of arts and humanities sites which are categorised under architecture, area studies, cinema, dance, design, history, languages, literature, museums and galleries, music, occult, performance art, philosophy and religion, and visual arts.

BUBL Information Service
http://bubl.ac.uk/
Developer: BUBL Information Service, Andersonian Library, Strathclyde University
A UK national information service for the higher education community. Key areas of BUBL include BUBL Link (a classified catalogue of Internet resources covering all main subject areas including Creative Arts, Humanities, Language, Literature and Culture, and General Reference), BUBL UK (a detailed directory of UK institutions and services) and BUBL Search (options for searching different areas of BUBL or specific areas of the Internet). 

CTI (Computers in Teaching Iniative)
http://www.cti.ac.uk/
Developer: CTI (Computers in Teaching Initiative)
"The homepages of the CTI centres act as gateways to networked information resources and to information on the use of computers in higher education." The Arts & Humanities subject centres include CTI Art & Design, CTI Centre for History, Archaeology & Art History, CTI Centre for Modern Languages, CTI Music
and CTI Textual Studies.

EDSITEment!
http://edsitement.neh.fed.us/
Developer: National Endowment for the Humanities, et al.
"...brings together the best of the humanities on the web. It is a constantly growing collection of the most valuable online resources for teaching English, history, art history, and foreign languages. EDSITEment is a joint project of the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Council of the Great City Schools, MCI WorldCom, and the National Trust for the Humanities." Highlights top Humanities sites and lesson plans.

Electronic Text Center: Humanities Internet Resources
http://www.rice.edu/Fondren/ETC/bysubj.html
Developer: Rice University
Provides links to relevant Humanities web sites on various topics including Asian Studies, History, Linguistics, Philosophy, etc.

The English Server
http://eserver.org/
Developer: Carnegie Mellon University
More than 20,000 texts in the humanities plus links to associated sites. Searchable and browsable. Recommended.

The HUMBUL Gateway
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~humbul/
Developer: Oxford University
HUMBUL (the HUManities BULletin board) was started in the mid 1980s. Here you will find a large collection of high quality links to scholarly resources in the Humanities.

NISS Services
http://www.niss.ac.uk/
Developer: NISS (National Information Services and Systems)
Provides links to a wide range of services for education including Expert Search and a Directory of Networked Resources including Philosophy, Religion/Theology, The Arts, Languages/Linguistics/Literature, Geography, Biography/History and Generalities.

Social Sciences & Humanities InfoMine
http://infomine.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/w3-msql/search/liberalsearch.html
Developer: The Libraries of the University of California, Riverside
A goldmine of information on social sciences and humanities. Browse by subject, keyword or title. Also has general references, educational resources and other Internet search tools. 

SOSIG - Social Science Information Gateway
http://www.sosig.ac.uk/welcome.html
Developer: SOSIG
Provides access to networked social science resources including resources of interest to the arts and humanities including philosophy, geography, government and statistics. 

Voice of the Shuttle: General Humanities Resources Page
http://humanitas.ucsb.edu/shuttle/general.html
Developer: Alan Liu, English Dept., Univ. of California, Santa Barbara
Gigantic collection of web sites for the Humanities. Highly recommended.

The WWW Virtual Library: Humanities
http://www.hum.gu.se/w3vl/w3vl.html
Developer: Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Göteborg University, Sweden
Links are divided into the following sections : (i)Humanities (General), (ii)Archaeology, history, philosophy, religion, (iii) Languages and literature, (iv) Others and (v) WWW-VL database. 

Biography.com
http://www.biography.com/
Developer: A&E Television Networks
Search this 20,000-entry database for persons, living or dead.

OneLook Dictionaries, The Faster Finder
http://www.onelook.com/
Developer: Stonehenge Internet Communications
Recommended for people who need to look up word definitions quickly. Some 2,262,553 words in 471 dictionaries are searchable.

Country Studies / Area Handbook Series
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html
Developer: Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress
An excellent reference source for culture, society and belief systems of the nations of the world. However, not all countries are listed.

Hunting for E-Mail Addresses
http://twod.med.harvard.edu/labgc/roth/Emailsearch.html
Developer: Fritz Roth, Harvard University 
This useful directory gives links to sites which allows you to search for e-mail addresses.

Michigan Electronic Library (Michigan Library)
http://mel.lib.mi.us/
Developer: The Michigan Electronic Library, University of Michigan
A goldmine of information for general references like addresses, dictionaries, encyclopedias, directories, etc. as well as general information.

My Virtual Reference Desk - My Facts Page
http://www.refdesk.com/facts.html
Developer: Bob Drudge
Excellent website for all kinds of reference tools - dictionaries, encyclopedias, directories, etc.

Voice of the Shuttle: Reference Page
http://humanitas.ucsb.edu/shuttle/referenc.html#general
Developer: Alan Liu, English Dept., Univ. of California, Santa Barbara
Excellent source of reference materials, including dictionaries, directories, atlases, guides, etc. Highly recommended.

A Web of On-line Dictionaries
http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rbeard/diction.html
Developer: Robert Beard, Bucknell University
"this website indexes on-line dictionaries, thesauri, and such like containing words and phrases. Preference in selection has been given to free online dictionaries of high quality". Linked to more than 800 dictionaries in 160 different languages. Highly recommended.

World Fax & Telephone Numbers Register
http://www.teldir.com/
Developer: Buttle & Tuttle Ltd
To find a directory, select a country from the list. There is also a list of email address directories, plus a page of other telecoms related links. 

Yahoo! - Education : Higher Education : Colleges and Universities
http://www.yahoo.com/Education/Higher_Education/Colleges_and_Universities/
Developer: Yahoo! Inc.
Access to universities’ and colleges’ homepages around the world. Arranged by country. 

CataList, the official catalog of LISTSERV lists
http://www.lsoft.com/lists/listref.html
Developer: L-Soft international Inc.
From this page, you can browse any of the 23,648 public LISTSERV lists on the Internet, search for mailing lists of interest, and get information
about LISTSERV host sites. This information is generated automatically from LISTSERV's LISTS database and is always up to date. 

Deja News
http://www.dejanews.com/
Developer: Deja News, Inc.
You will be able to access discussions on specific topics by doing a keyword search of the Usenet news archives. Join newsgroups and mailing lists for free.

Directory of Scholarly & Professional E-Conferences
http://www.n2h2.com/KOVACS/
Developer: Diane K. Kovacs & The Directory Team 
"The Directory of Scholarly and Professional E-conferences screens, evaluates and organizes discussion lists, newsgroups, MUDS, MOO'S, Muck's, Mushes, mailing lists, interactive Web chat groups etc. (e-conferences) on topics of interest to scholars and professionals for use in their scholarly, pedagological and professional activities."

H-Net's List of Lists (Michigan State U.)
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/lists/
Developer: H-Net, Humanities & Social Sciences OnLine
H-Net's e-mail lists function as electronic networks, linking professors, teachers and students in the humanities.

Liszt: Humanities
http://www.liszt.com/select/Humanities/
Developer:  Scott Southwick
Lists online discussion groups for the Humanities

Mailbase Electronic Mailing List Service
http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/
Developer: University of Newcastle
Provides electronic discussion lists for the UK higher education community. Has 2,335 discussion lists, and 160,490 members worldwide. Search by subject or name.

Reference. COM Search
http://WWW.Reference.COM/
Developer: Sift Inc.
A search engine for newsgroups and mailing lists. Enter the subject of your choice to obtain groups that you may wish to join.

Tile.net
http://tile.net/
Developer: Lyris Technologies Inc. 
Index includes both e-mail discussion groups and Usenet newsgroups. Also includes e-mail forms for subscribing.

Document Delivery Services (British Library)
http://www.bl.uk/services/bsds/dsc/delivery.html
Developer: British Library Document Supply Centre
Provides copies of journal articles and theses, as well as loans books on request. All services are fee-based.

EBSCOdoc
EBSCOdoc is a full service document delivery company offering document delivery from an electronically linked network of in-house and world wide library sources. Also offers several databases for searching, browsing, document ordering and Current Awareness. Fee-based service.

UnCoverWeb!
http://uncweb.carl.org/index.html
Developer: The UnCover Company
"UnCover is a database of current article information taken from well over 18,000
multidisciplinary journals. UnCover contains brief descriptive information for over 8,800,000 articles which have appeared since Fall 1988."

Anonymous FTP and FAQ sites
Obtain a giant list of ftp files. However you will have to transfer this file to your computer to read it.

List of WWW Archie Services
http://www.nexor.com/archie.html/
Developer: Nexor Ltd.
List of Archie gateways in the World Wide Web. Archie allows you to search for ftp files. Find any ftp file on over one million sites.

Monster FTP Sites List
http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/ftp/
Developer: Brandon C. Long
Ftp this file to your computer before reading it. Very huge file.
 

Books On-Line
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/bookauthors.html
Developer: John Mark Ockerbloom
Enter an author's name to search for the full-text of his works.

CARRIE: An Electronic Library
http://kuhttp.cc.ukans.edu/carrie/carrie_main.html
Developer: University of Kansas
Obtain full-text documents from this site.

Digitized Text Centers and Electronic Text Projects
http://www.lib.utk.edu/text/
Developer: Steven R. Harris, Hodges Library, University of Tennessee
Lists sites where electronic full texts, images and other digital files are available.

Directory Survey - A Guide to Etext Directories
http://www.westciv.com.au/Etext_Pages/etext_directories.html
Developer: Western Civilisation Pty Ltd
Index to sites for finding electronic texts on the Net.

Electronic Text Resources
http://firth.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/humbul/section.pl?SECTION=e-text
Developer: University of Oxford
Links to sites with electronic texts.

Electronic Texts and Publishing
http://lcweb.loc.gov/global/etext/etext.html
Developer: Library of Congress
Access sites with full-text documents. Links are classified under General, Single titles and collections, Works by specific authors, Government and legal documents, Etext newsletters, etc.

The English Server
http://eserver.org
Developer: English Department, Carnegie Mellon University
More than 20,000 texts in the humanities plus links to associated sites. Searchable and browsable.

The Oxford Text Archive
http://firth.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/ota/public/index.shtml
Developer: University of Oxford
Maintains a database of electronic texts in the arts and humanities.

Project Gutenberg - Etext listings
http://www.promo.net/pg/list.html
Developer: Pietro Di Miceli 
You may browse or search under Author or Title for the full text of books. 

Gopher Jewels
http://galaxy.einet.net/GJ/index.html
Developer: Galaxy
"The Gopher Jewels resource was a way for you to find information located on Gopher sites. It was created and maintained by David Riggins. The links here point to the corresponding topic area in the Galaxy directory. You can still search the
Gopher Jewels (subject list of Gopher sites) at the bottom of this page." 

Veronica Site
http://www.mhhe.com/cit/net/effect/net/veronica.htm
Access Veronica sites listed here. Veronica allows you to search for Gopher sites. 

Asian Government Information (NLA)
http://widow.nla.gov.au/gov/asiagov.html
Developer: National Library of Australia
Links to governments in Southeast Asia and the Far East.

CCTA Government Information Service
http://www.open.gov.uk/index.htm
Developer: Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency
Links to all UK government departments and bodies.

FedWorld Information Network Home Page
http://www.fedworld.gov/#usgovt/
Developer: FedWorld Information Network and NTIS
A search engine to all U.S. government servers.

Foreign Governments
http://www.library.nwu.edu/govpub/resource/internat/foreign.html
Developer: Northwestern University Library
Lists of links to government departments all over the world arranged by country.

Government & Politics (Malaysia)
http://www.jaring.my/msia/newhp/gov/gov.html
Developer: MIMOS Bhd.
Provides background information on the government of Malaysia. Very useful links to websites classified under the following headings : Parliament of Malaysia, Ministry Profile, Cabinet Line-up, Diplomatic Missions, Politics, State Government/Agencies, Government Projects and Related Homepages. 

The WWW Virtual Library : U.S. Government Information Sources
http://www.nttc.edu/gov_res.html
Developer: National Technology Transfer Center
Access a government department/institution by using this site’s search engine or check one of the following sections : Executive branches, Executive departments, Independent agencies and Other government. 

DIRECTORIES

MediaINFO Links
http://www.mediainfo.com/emedia/
Developer: The Editor & Publisher Co. 
Excellent site to locate newspapers all over the world. The database also contains associations, city guides, magazines, news services and syndicates, radio and television Web sites

INDIVIDUAL TITLES, A-Z

Asia Times
Selection of news from the daily Asia Times.

Berita Harian Online
http://www.jaring.my/bharian/
Developer: The New Straits Times Press (Malaysia) Berhad.
Selected news from this Malay daily newspaper. Divided into News, Editorial, Entertainment, Business, Sports and Archive (for the latest week only). Free access.

CNN Interactive
http://www.cnn.com/
Developer: Cable News Network
Keep up with the latest international news at this electronic news site.

Dinamani Tamil Daily
http://www.xpres-net.com/dinamani/
Developer: FrontPoint Systems
Presents news on Malaysia in the Tamil language. A few days behind the print copy. Free access.

Nanyang Siang Pau
http://www.nanyang.com.my/
Developer: SilkRoute Ventures
Clippings of current news in Malaysia. In Chinese, updated daily and free access.

Star Online, Malaysia
http://www.jaring.my/star/
Developer: Star Publications (M) Bhd
Selection of news from and about Malaysia. Updated daily. Main sections: News, Business, Sports and Features. Free access.

Sarawak Tribune Online
http://www.jaring.my/tribune/
Developer: Insan Sejati Sdn Bhd.
Selected news from the Sarawak (in English) and Utusan Sarawak (in Malay). Updated daily. Free access.

Sinchew Interactive
http://www.rhmedia.com/sinchew/welcome.shtml
Developer: Pemandangan Sinar Sdn Bhd.
Selected news from a Chinese daily  "Sin Chew Jit Poh" in Malaysia.

Utusan Malaysia Online
http://www.utusan.com.my/utusan/
Developer: Utusan Melayu (M) Bhd.
This Malay newspaper presents the latest news in Malay under the following headings: Front page, Home news, Lifestyles, Entertainment, Sports, Features. Also has selected news translated into English. Updated daily. Free access. 

British Library

European Online Public Access Library Catalogues

Library of Congress

National University of Singapore

Perpustakaan Negara Malaysia

Universiti Malaya
Click on OPAC to gain access.

Universiti Malaysia Sarawak
login : opac 
OPAC = VTLS

Universiti Putra Malaysia

Universiti Utara Malaysia

UL Workstation - Library Catalogs
http://www.library.yale.edu/pubstation/libcats.html
Developer: University of Yale
Yale’s gateway to library catalogues around the world.

WebCATS : Library Catalogues on the World Wide Web
http://www.undcp.org/unlinks.html
Developer: Northern Lights Internet Solutions
Search by geographical area or type of library. 

United Nations and other International Organizations
http://www.undcp.org/unlinks.html
Developer: United Nations International Drugs Control Programme
The best site for information on and from the United Nations. Also has links to other international organizations. 

Publishers’ Catalogues Home Page
http://www.lights.com/publisher/
Developer: Peter Scott, Northern Lights Internet Solutions Ltd. 
You can gain access to publishers’ catalogues from all over the world. 

There are many sites that display links to several engines.  They are called
'Metaindexes'. Here are some of the more useful ones: 

All-in One Search Page
http://www.albany.net/allinone
Developer : William Cross

Digisearch
http://www.digiway.com/digisearch
Developer : Digiway Ltd.

Internet Search Engines
http://www.searchgateway.com/
Developer : Internet Oracle, Inc.
Excellent site providing links to major search engines, specialized subject search engines, as well as metaengines.  Highly recommended.
 

There are also metaengines that allow you to run your search terms against several search engines simultaneously. Here are some ot them:

Cyber411
http://www.cyber411.com/main.htm
Developer : Cyber Networks, Inc.
Runs your search against 16 search engines.

Digisearch
http://www.digiway.com/digisearch
Developer : Digiway Ltd.

Dogpile
http://www.dogpile.com

Metacrawler
http://www.metacrawler.com
Developer : Go2Net, Inc.
Runs your search against 9 search engines. Only the results of 10 sites from each engine are displayed.

Online Meta Search Engines
http://www.searchgateway.com/meta.htm
Developer : Internet Oracle, Inc.
Provides links to 20 metaengines, including Dogpile, MetaCrawler, Ask Jeeves, and other major metaengines.  Your one-step centre for metaengines.

Savvysearch
http://www.savvysearch.com/
Developer : SavvySearch Limited
"...over 200 search engines, guides, auctions, storefronts, Usenet archives, news archives, shareware libraries, and yet more web resources are uniquely integrated in a single easy to use interface."

STATISTICAL DATA

InfoNation
http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/infonation/e_infonation.htm
Developer: United Nations
Provides current statistics of 185 countries , e.g. population, life expectancy, fertility, school enrolment, illiteracy, homicides, etc.

International Data Base
http://www.census.gov/ftp/pub/ipc/www/idbnew.html
Developer: International Programs Center, U.S. Bureau of the Census
The International Data Base (IDB) is a computerized data bank containing statistical tables of demographic, and socio-economic data for all countries of the world Additional data on marital status, ethnic origin, religion, literacy, labor force, income and poverty. Data may be downloaded directly or viewed via a spreadsheet

Social Indicators of Development
http://www.ciesin.org/IC/wbank/sid-home.html
Developer: World Bank
"Contains the World Bank's most detailed data collection for assessing human welfare to provide a picture of the social effects of economic development. Data are presented for over 170 economies, omitting only those for which data are inadequate." 

Statistical Resources on the Web
http://www.lib.umich.edu/libhome/Documents.center/stats.html
Developer: University of Michigan
A very good site for all types of statistics all over the world. Highly recommended.

World Resources, 1996-1997
http://www.wri.org/wri/wr-96-97/index.html
Developer: World Resources Institute
World Resources 1996-97 is an authoritative primary reference volume on global environmental and natural resource conditions and trends for the United Nations, World Bank, and related international organizations.

World Population Trends (U.N.)
gopher://gopher.undp.org:70/11/ungophers/popin/wdtrends
Developer: United Nations Development Program
Provides statistics for world population. Topics include growth projections, urbanization, fertility, mortality, migration, and abortion. 

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