Useful Websites
This collection of links contains only websites that I consider very valuable for orientation and research. I try to keep the list short; it is sorted by category. Click on each category to open or close the list of links. (There are additional Website recommendations in some of the main content pages. )
Art
- Oxford Art Online
Oxford Art Online offers access to a very comprehensive and easily searchable online art resource. - The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
- Webmuseum
Virtual museum offering access to art masterpieces. Artist index and a thematic index. - Wiki Paintings
Encyclopedia of fine arts. The project aims to create high-quality, most complete and well-structured online repository of fine art. Non-profit, no advertisement.
Biology
- Evolution Portal on PBS
With resources, videos, and links to TV shows. - NewScientist on Evolution
Research articles about Evolution - Understanding Evolution
Official site from the UC Berkeley
Countries and Regions
- Facts and Details: Asia
Insights into countries and cultures: Mainly Japan, China, South East Asia - Global Issues: Social Justice
Social, Political, Economic and Environmental Issues That Affect Us All - The World Factbook: Country Information compiled by the CIA
provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities.
Economics
- Global Issues: Social Justice
Social, Political, Economic and Environmental Issues That Affect Us All - Library of Economics and Liberty
The Library of Economics and Liberty is dedicated to advancing the study of economics, markets, and liberty. It offers a unique combination of resources for students, teachers, researchers, and aficionados of economic thought.
Electronic Texts
- Access to Insight – Readings in Theravada Buddhism
It contains the text of the Pali Canon, and explanations of Theravada Buddhism. - Bartleby.com
It publishes the classics of literature, nonfiction, and reference free of charge. Great Resource. - Bible Gateway
The Bible Gateway is a tool for reading and researching scripture online — all in the language or translation of your choice! It provides advanced searching capabilities, which allow readers to find and compare particular passages in scripture, - Catholic Encyclopedia
The Catholic Encyclopedia, as its name implies, proposes to give its readers full and authoritative information on the entire cycle of Catholic interests, action and doctrine. - Christian Classics Library
A full-text resource for many authors, not only Christian. - Deutsches Text Archiv
Contains German-language text from 1700 to 1900. - Internet Classics Archive
Select from a list of 441 works of classical literature by 59 different authors, including user-driven commentary and “reader’s choice” Web sites. Mainly Greco-Roman works (some Chinese and Persian), all in English translation. - Internet Global History Sourcebook
It contains many sources. The global history shows the interaction between cultures; they are also many country and period source collections. From Fordham University. - Internet History Sourcebooks Project
The Internet History Sourcebooks Project is a collection of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented cleanly (classroom-ready) for educational use. From Fordham University. - Literature Network
3000 full books and over 4000 short stories and poems by over 250 authors. Our quotations database has over 8500 quotes. - Marxists Internet Archive
The best resource for Marxist texts on the Internet. - Perseus Digital Library
This text collection covers the history, literature and culture of the Greco-Roman world. They extend their approach now from the Classics to other subjects within the humanities and beyond. - Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg offers over 38,000 free ebooks: choose among free epub books, free kindle books, download them or read them online. They were digitized and proofread with the help of thousands of volunteers. - Project Wittenberg
Texts by and About Martin Luther and Other Lutherans - Soto Zen Text Project
The Soto Zen Text Project is an initiative of the International Division of the Administrative Headquarters of Soto Zen Buddhism (Sōtōshū Shūmuchō) that seeks to provide materials for the international study and p1`ractice of Soto Zen. - Theravada Buddhism – Access to Insight. Buddhist text collections.
Access to Insight is an Internet website dedicated to providing accurate, reliable, and useful information concerning the practice and study of Theravada Buddhism, as it has been handed down to us through both the written word of the Pali canon. - Wikisource
A free library that anyone can improve. Close to 300.000 texts in English; and many other languages as well.
History
- History Section of the BBC
- Internet Global History Sourcebook
It contains many sources. The global history shows the interaction between cultures; they are also many country and period source collections. From Fordham University. - Necrometrics – Source List and Detailed Death Tolls for Man-made Multicides throughout History
If you consider it rude to reduce human suffering to cold statistics, you don’t have to. Turn away now.
Literature and Poetry
- Literature Network
3000 full books and over 4000 short stories and poems by over 250 authors. Our quotations database has over 8500 quotes. - LyrikLine – Poetry in many Languages
At the moment lyrikline.org presents 789 poets, 7152 poems, 55 mother tongues and 9377 translations into 55 languages. - The Modern World – Literature
It is a large network of literary sites dedicated to exploring twentieth century writers who have pushed the envelope of traditional narrative and structure.
Math/Logic
- Clay Mathematics Institute
Dedicated to increasing and disseminating mathematical knowledge - Infinite Ink
Writing and publishing about computing, mathematics, science, and philosophy. - Knotplot: Knot theory, pictures, links.
This page is part of the KnotPlot Site, where you’ll find many more pictures of knots and links as well as MPEG animations and lots of things to download. - Math Answers
It’s a very user-friendly site that answers your math questions, and has nice introductions. - Mountain Math Software
Information and speculation on physics, mathematics and philosophy. Has very good introductions. - NewScientist
New Scientist reports, explores and interprets the results of human endeavour set in the context of society and culture. - The MacTutor History of Mathematics archive
The history of mathematics, biographies of many mathematicians. Very comprehensive. - The Prime Pages
Prime number research, records, and resources - Wolfram Alpha Computational Search Engine
Wolfram|Alpha introduces a fundamentally new way to get knowledge and answers— not by searching the web, but by doing dynamic computations based on a vast collection of built-in data, algorithms, and methods. - Wolfram MathWorld
MathWorldTM is the web’s most extensive mathematical resource, provided as a free service to the world’s mathematics and internet communities as part of a commitment to education and educational outreach by Wolfram Research, makers of Mathematica.
Philosophy
- Contemporary Philosophy, Critical Theory and Postmodern Thought,
A popular hypertext index of contemporary philosophers, critical theorists and postmodern writers by Martin Ryder. - History of Philosophy Podcasts
Peter Adamson, Professor of Philosophy at the LMU in Munich and at King’s College London, takes listeners through the history of philosophy, The series looks at the ideas, lives and historical context of the major philosophers. - Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (IEP)
Another excellent resource for philosophy on the web. - Internet History Sourcebooks Project
The Internet History Sourcebooks Project is a collection of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented cleanly (classroom-ready) for educational use. From Fordham University. - Philosophy Pages
This site offers helpful information for students of the Western philosophical tradition, from an experienced philosophy teacher. - PhilPapers
PhilPapers is a comprehensive index and bibliography of philosophy maintained by the community of philosophers. Using advanced trawling techniques and large scale crowdsourcing, we monitor all sources of research content in philosophy, including journals, - Philweb Bibliographical Archive – Theoretical Resources.
PhilWeb aims to make available to researchers a variety of resources, for example bibliographies, definitions and surveys of particular theorists, movements, periods, regions and topics, as well as links to other sites. - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
The best philosophical resource on the web. High-quality essays about all major topics. Very academic.
Physics
- Albert Einstein
Misc info, bio, and quotes. Many photos. - An aggregator site for science blogs
Your one-stop shop for the most recent science blogging. - Mountain Math Software
Information and speculation on physics, mathematics and philosophy. Has very good introductions. - NewScientist
New Scientist reports, explores and interprets the results of human endeavour set in the context of society and culture. - Online Learning: Fun With Physics!
It’s a wonderful and fun teaching resource to learn about motion, gravity, light, heat, and magnetism. - Open Source Physics
Teach yourself physics at home - Particle Physics Introduction
Interactive Tour of Particle Physics - Physics Research
Physics provides daily online-only news and commentary about Physics. The website is aimed at the reader who wants to keep up with highlights of physics research with explanations that don’t rely on jargon and technical detail. - Physorg.com – Science, Physics, Tech, Nano, News.
Topics include physics, earth science, medicine, nanotechnology, electronics, space, biology, chemistry, computer sciences, engineering, mathematics and other sciences and technologies. - The "Official String Theory Web Site"
Discuss string theory and alternative theories of quantum gravity. - Theoretical Physics Fun
- Wolfram Alpha Computational Search Engine
Wolfram|Alpha introduces a fundamentally new way to get knowledge and answers— not by searching the web, but by doing dynamic computations based on a vast collection of built-in data, algorithms, and methods.
Political Theory
- Contemporary Philosophy, Critical Theory and Postmodern Thought,
A popular hypertext index of contemporary philosophers, critical theorists and postmodern writers by Martin Ryder. - Crooked Timber.
Out of the crroked timber of humanity no straight thing was ever made. THat’s the slogan for this leftist theory website. - Marxists Internet Archive
The best resource for Marxist texts on the Internet.
Psychoanalysis
- Freud Library. Texts from Freud in different languages.
Well-done project to make original Freud texts accessible in different languges. - Lacan entziffern. German Lacan resources and articles.
Collection of essays and translations for Jacques Lacan, in German. Best Lacan Website in German!
Reference
- Academia.edu
The Facebook for Academics. Large collection of papers. Academia.edu is a platform for academics to share research papers. The numbers are staggering, but the website is privately owned and one of those California startups. - Bartleby.com
It publishes the classics of literature, nonfiction, and reference free of charge. Great Resource. - Gallup World
Worldwide uselful data - Math Answers
It’s a very user-friendly site that answers your math questions, and has nice introductions. - Open Directory Project
The Open Directory Project is the largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web. It is constructed and maintained by a vast, global community of volunteer editors - Perseus Digital Library
This text collection covers the history, literature and culture of the Greco-Roman world. They extend their approach now from the Classics to other subjects within the humanities and beyond. - The World Factbook: Country Information compiled by the CIA
provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities. - Wikipedia
Wikipedia is probably the most popluar website on the Internet, it ais an easy way to get information about anything really fast. - Wikisource
A free library that anyone can improve. Close to 300.000 texts in English; and many other languages as well.
Science
- Albert Einstein
Misc info, bio, and quotes. Many photos. - An aggregator site for science blogs
Your one-stop shop for the most recent science blogging. - Infinite Ink
Writing and publishing about computing, mathematics, science, and philosophy. - NewScientist
New Scientist reports, explores and interprets the results of human endeavour set in the context of society and culture. - Online Learning: Fun With Physics!
It’s a wonderful and fun teaching resource to learn about motion, gravity, light, heat, and magnetism. - Particle Physics Introduction
Interactive Tour of Particle Physics - Physorg.com – Science, Physics, Tech, Nano, News.
Topics include physics, earth science, medicine, nanotechnology, electronics, space, biology, chemistry, computer sciences, engineering, mathematics and other sciences and technologies. - ScienceBlogs
Edited blogs: We have selected our 80+ bloggers based on their originality, insight, talent, and dedication and how we think they would contribute to the discussion at ScienceBlogs. - Wolfram Alpha Computational Search Engine
Wolfram|Alpha introduces a fundamentally new way to get knowledge and answers— not by searching the web, but by doing dynamic computations based on a vast collection of built-in data, algorithms, and methods. - Wolfram MathWorld
MathWorldTM is the web’s most extensive mathematical resource, provided as a free service to the world’s mathematics and internet communities as part of a commitment to education and educational outreach by Wolfram Research, makers of Mathematica.
Theology & Religion
- Access to Insight – Readings in Theravada Buddhism
It contains the text of the Pali Canon, and explanations of Theravada Buddhism. - How to do Zazen
Soto Zen Project in Japan - Project Wittenberg
Texts by and About Martin Luther and Other Lutherans - The New Advent Catholic Encyclopedia
Contains the Catholic and religious Western tradition; texts and summaries.