The Hudson Institute, founded by well-known futurist Herman Kahn, conducts research and supports policy development in many areas of concern, including global prosperity, American culture, and others both domestic and worldwide. Its Center for Global Prosperity, at http://cgp.hudson.org/ publishes The Index of Global Philanthropy, available as a pdf at http://gpr.hudson.org/files/publications/GlobalPhilanthropy.pdf.
APIS is a collections-based repository hosting information about and images of papyrological materials (e.g. papyri, ostraca, wood tablets, etc) located in collections around the world. It contains physical descriptions and bibliographic information about the papyri and other written materials, as well as digital images and English translations of many of these texts.
A Good Place to Start: The IDS Knowledge Services Guide to Finding Development Information Online
This Insititute for Development Studies (IDS) guide provides links to a broad range of free online material on over 30 development themes, such as child labor, gender and conflict.
A guide compiled by the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh that "lists types of small businesses and a corresponding sample business plan, profile or book about the business with sources provided after each entry." Links are provided to many free online plans. Print resources identified are those housed in the Carnegie Library, but that may also be available at Hekman.
The ULAN is one of three Getty Vocabulary Databases. It contains approximately 293,000 names and other information about artists. Currently there are
around 120,000 artists in the ULAN.
The AAT is one of three Getty Vocabulary Databases. It contains more than 125,000 terms covering fine art,
architecture, decorative arts, archival materials, and material
culture.
Easy to use and up-to-date, "this database offers constitutions,
charters, amendments, and other related documents. Nations of the world
are linked to their constitutional text posted somewhere on the
Internet."
globalEDGE, from the Michigan State University Center for International
Business Education and Research is an information portal which provides access to more than five thousand
Internet resources with annotations.
Accessible from the LIbrary of Congress web site, this encyclopedia, which will be updated regularly, was developed by the Library's Music Division. It serves as a centralized guide to the collections and resources at the Library of Congress that pertain to music, theater, and dance.
"NextBillion.net
is both a knowledge repository and a space for discussion and
networking among those with an interest in the “next billion”―the next
billion to rise from the base of the economic pyramid
(BOP) as participants in healthy economies, and the next billion in
profits for businesses, from multinational to microenterprises, to earn
by selling to underserved markets."
Case studies and project lists from all over the world are excellent.
Features a free world music podcast; "World Music Profiles," with weekly audio interviews and new music features; a vast world music directory, searchable by artist's name, genre, album, or country, and much more.
A topical bibliography with links to full-text articles about urban planning published prior to the end of World War I. Articles include statements
about techniques, principles, theories, and practice. Selected and edited by John W. Reps (Cornell University).
A Fannie Mae-sponsored site which culls demographic, economic, social, and housing data from multiple government agencies and presents it in a simple, straightforward format. Users can create thematic maps and scatterplots to represent the information.
A scholarly forum geared toward urban history and urban studies scholars, professionals, and students. Provides links to book reviews, syllabi, and teaching tools.
A directory covering topics such as growth and sprawl, historic preservation, transportation, urban design, urban history and urban economics. (This site is part of the Open Directory Project.)
A digital library administered by the U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics. Provides information that supports transportation policy and research, with full-text access to documents published by public, academic, and private organizations.
The Kuyers Institute for Christian Teaching and Learning is devoted to the study and promotion of pedagogy, learning, and educational leadership from an integrally Christian perspective.
AquaNIC houses or provides links to thousands of state, national, and international aquaculture publications, newsletters, visual media, calendars, job services, directories and specialty sections for species and production systems.
The aim of The Husserl Page is twofold. First, this site provides a series of originally created bibliographic and informational pages relevant for research into Husserl's philosophy and development thereof. Second, this site supplies an exhaustive listing of (external) internet sites relevant for research into the life and philosophy of Edmund Husserl. [from website]
A major UK web portal for the finest Arts and Humanities web resources for education and research. More than 18,000 sites have been selected and evaluated by a network of subject specialists and made available through an intuitive search interface.
Google Book is a project to digitize the print collections of several major partner libraries and also to present full text downloads of public domain, out of copyright, and other available print books. Each book record includes title, author, publication date, length
and subject and some include key terms and phrases, references to the book from scholarly
publications or other books, chapter titles and a list of related
books.
The UCLA Globalization Research Center-Africa (GRCA) GlobaLink-Africa
Online Curriculum is an interactive online resource for thinking
critically about globalization and its relationship to Africa, Africans
and United States-Africa policy.
Most helpful areas and free to all web users are the homepages of magazines/journals links, the programs, research centers, libraries, and archives links, women's organizations links, and especially the links by subject area.
WSSLinks is developed and maintained by The Women's Studies Section (WSS) of the Association of College & Research
Libraries, which discusses, promotes, and supports women's studies
collections and services in academic and research libraries.
Web site focusing on the 'other' original languages of the Netherlands: Frisian, Low Saxon, and Limburgisch, with bibliography, linguistic maps, and web links.
Useful as an access-point for Dutch bibliography. See additionally the wide variety of web exhibitions and displays of special collections in Dutch literature, history, and culture.
Statistics Netherlands is responsible for collecting, processing and publishing statistics to be used by policymakers, including demographic and economic statistics.
A concise guide to Dutch orthography (spelling), with a history of spelling reforms and changes. (This is an English translation of a Dutch Wikipedia article.)
A research institute for Frisian language and history. The Web site has
information about current research projects and publications, and
contains a number of online resources, including a language
corpus of middle Frisian, downloads for electronic spell-checkers, and
a classified bibliography of Frisian studies.
Google News Archive Search provides an easy way to search and explore
historical news archives for events, people or ideas and
see how they have been described over time. In addition to searching
for the most relevant articles for their query, users can get a
historical overview of the results by browsing an automatically
created timeline. Search results include both content that is
accessible to all users and content that requires a fee. Articles
related to a single story within a given time period are grouped
together to allow users to see a broad perspective on the events.
A forum for discussion of vital ethical issues affecting journalists all over the world. Especially take a look at the sections entitled "Featured topics" and "Links".
The History Channel is an award winning history site that combines professional articles on historical events, people and places. Type in a year or a specific date and get all related articles and multimedia products.
Features comprehensive research coverage of key First Amendment issues and topics, daily First Amendment news, a unique First Amendment Library and guest analyses by respected legal specialists.
