Favorite Research Sources

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General Indexes and Search Engines

• Altavista This search engine is a good tool for specific searching.
• Ask Jeeves! This site leads the user through a series of questions to narrow a search.
• Excite Great for broad searches. This engine can search the Web, news headlines, etc. simultaneously.
• Google  This search engine scans all of the text of the pages it lists (and not just the headers).  This is the search engine to use if you are looking for specific phrases, names, places or dates.
• GoTo.com One of the oldest search engines on the web, this site was originally called the World Wide Web Worm.
• Hotbot Hotbot is the search site of Wired magazine, and it is a good tool for specific searches.
• Internet Sleuth Excellent site for very specialized searches.
• Liszt A mailing list searcher.
• Lycos At Carnegie Mellon University. This has both an elementary and a complex search procedure.
• Metacrawler This site searches seven search engines at once and puts all of this information together. It is great for broad searches, but may not be suited to specific queries.
• Northern Light Northern Light searches pay-per-view articles and books not available to the public on the web, in addition to general web page searches.
• WebCrawler Indexes contents, titles, anchors, and URLs.
• Yahoo A friendly, general purpose index with search capabilities. Often a good place to start, especially for browsing.

Libraries, Museums, and University Pages

• American Studies Web at Georgetown University. Also contains links to some general reference and research tools.
• Amistad Research Center at Tulane: Afro-American and ethnic history and culture.
• ArtsNet An on-line information service created by students at Carnegie Mellon University. It offers links to cultural resources about literature, among other things.
• AubieCat Auburn University's on-line library catalogs.
• Britannica Online search Encyclopedia Britannica Online
• Franklin Institute Science Museum, Philadelphia
• Huntington Library
• The Internet Classics Archive Classical Greek and Roman Literature in translation (MIT).
• Literary Tools on the Web Tools for the study of (primarily) English and American Literature. Maintained by the University of Pennsylvania.
• Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
• Museum of Modern Art, New York
• OCLC search the Library of Congress's catalog online
• Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Cleveland
• The British Library On-Line
• The British Library Public Catalogue search the catalog of the British Library online
• The Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture
• The Web Museum Network A number of Museums have online exhibitions. This one is particularly good. Any of them may provide information about the representation of women.
• The World Lecture Hall A collection of Web courseware from many colleges and universities.
• University Home Pages Links to universities, colleges, and communities in the United States. This may be a useful place to look if you know that a particular school is doing research in an area of your interest.
• University of California Museum of Paleontology, Berkeley
• University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia

Other Useful Research Sites

• ARTFL A database of information about French Literature, Philosophy, and Arts from the 15th-century to 20th-century.
• Corbis Web This site is run by Microsoft and contains thousands of digital images--some free and some for sale.
• Edsitement This an education-oriented site maintained by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
• Finding Instructional Resources on the Web A great site for teachers!
• The Media History Project This site contains information on the history of comics, computing, culture, journalism, printing, and a lot more. Founded by Kristina Ross.
• History of Western Philosophy This site contains good summaries of major thinkers.
• LiteraryHistory.com This site is an index to full-text articles covering many major 19^th and 20^th Century American and British writers; includes some articles on 16^th, 17^th, and 18^th writers.
• Movie Review Query Engine “Students studying film or seeking authoritative and popular culture movie reviews will find this site helpful.”
• New York Times Book Reviews From 1980 to the present.
• Public Records Office This is the on-line site for the Public Records Office of the United Kingdom. Great for genealogical research.
• Victoria Research Web A useful site on 19th-century literature and history.
• Scottish National Dictionary This site give Scottish to English word definitions
• Jamieson's Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language Online A useful site for researching Scottish words

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