Web Sites - Arts and Humanities
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Arts and Humanities - General
Sites
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ADAM: the gateway to Art, Design, Architecture; Media Information on the internet: a searchable catalogue of internet resources "that have been carefully selected and catalogued by professional librarians for the benefit of the UK Higher Education community"
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Artifact: the RDN gateway to evaluated web sites for the arts and creative industries
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BUBL LINK: catalogue of internet resources
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English Short Title Catalogue by the British Library : lists over 460,000 items published between 1473 and 1800
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HUMBUL Humanities Hub: "aims to be UK higher and further education's first choice for accessing online humanities resources. "
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Infomine: Scholarly Internet Resource Collections - Visual and Performing Arts: a searchable directory of sites
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PORTAL: the British Academy's directory of online resources in the humanities and social sciences. It is designed as an entry point to available resources for those working in higher education and research.
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UK Data Archive: a specialist national resource containing the largest collection of accessible computer readable data in the social sciences and humanities in the United Kingdom.
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Yahoo! Arts: searchable directory of web sites
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Yahoo! Humanities: searchable directory of web sites
Performing Arts - General Sites
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Digital Performance Archive Collaborative project from Nottingham Trent and Salford Universities tracing the rapid developments which combine performance activity with new digital technologies
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AHDS Performing Arts: collects, documents, preserves and promotes the use of digital resources to support learning, research and teaching across the broad field of the performing arts: music, film, broadcast arts, theatre, dance.
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BalletCompanies.com: over 1800 links to ballet and dance companies all over the world
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CyberDance: a collection of over 3,500 links to classical ballet and modern dance resources on the Internet
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CinemaSpot: guides, reviews, trivia etc.
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British Film Institute: including Film links gateway
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The Internet Movie Database: details of more than 250,000 films and television programmes
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Doollee.com: the "not for profit" online guide to modern playwrights and theatre plays.
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Museum of Costume: research on costume design
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The Stage newspaper
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Stagework: looks at all aspects of current and recent National Theatre productions. Dedicated teachers' area coming soon.
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Whatsonstage.com: "the home of British theatre"
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The Aria Database: a diverse collection of information on over 1000 operatic arias.
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Faber Music: information on composers, and publications
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Art Source: links to electronic resources
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National Art Library: including access to their online catalogue
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Visual Arts Data Service: "providing, preserving and promoting quality digital resources for the visual arts"
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Artlex: Dictionary of Visual Art
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Axis: "the largest interactive database of contemporary British art on the Internet."
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The Roland Collection of Films and Videos on Art:"an international collection of films and videos on art, architecture and modern literature available for purchase by individuals and educational institutions worldwide." Under a CHEST agreement, access to the Roland Collection website, video clips and the Electronic Preview Service is free and does not require a licence.
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AccessArt: "an evolving collection of online workshops and arts educational activities aimed at all ages."
Internet for Historians: a "teach yourself" tutorial on internet information skills for historians
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Centre for North-West Regional Studies at Lancaster University
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The Data Archive - houses datasets particularly in history and the social sciences
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History in Focus: a new occasional series taking a thematic approach to history.
Internet for English: a "teach yourself" tutorial on internet information skills for english
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Twentieth Century Authors: links to sites with biographical and bibliographic information
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Bartleby.com: full-text poetry, fiction, non-fiction, quotations
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Bibliomania: free world literature online with more than 800 classic texts; study guides, author biographies, book summaries and reference books
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Women & Gender Studies literature and culture pages maintained by the Womens Studies Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries (USA)
Internet Philosopher: a "teach yourself" tutorial on internet information skills for philosophy
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PHILTAR Philosophy, Theology and Religion
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Ethics Updates:"designed primarily to be used by ethics instructors and their students. It is intended to provide updates on current literature, both popular and professional, that relates to ethics."
Internet for Religious Studies and Internet Theologian: "teach yourself" tutorials on internet information skills
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PHILTAR Philosophy, Theology and Religion
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Religion Online is an extensive digital library of over 250 book chapters, monographs, speeches, and articles on the socio-cultural aspects of Christianity. The texts, written by religious scholars, are arranged into twenty subject sections, such as Church and Society, Church History, Comparative Religion, and Sociology of Religion, among many others.
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Ecumenical and Denominational Links: "the most definitive listing of links to Christian churches and denominations on the web"
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New Testament Gateway: an "up to date, annotated guide to good academic New Testament web resources"