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- Alta Vista
Excellent site allowing Boolean Web searching
- Argus Clearinghouse: Subject-Oriented Internet Resource Guides
Excellent starting point for academic research
- Ask ERIC
Access to the federally-supported resource for K-12 educators
- CineMedia
Largest internet listing of film and multimedia links
- Electronic Reference Shelf (U-M)
An excellent general reference book collection (U-M access only)
- English Dept Online Pedagogical Toolbox (U-M)
Resources maintained by members of the U-M English Department
- Google
Excellent Web search site that lists hits in order of likely centrality
- H-Net Online (MSU)
Many virtual humanities communities' lists, links, and archives
- Humanities Text Initiative (U-M)
Excellent collection of reference works and electronic texts marked in SGML (mostly U-M access only)
- IATH (U Virginia)
Pioneering Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities
- Infoseek
Excellent site that allows limiting searches by database type (Usenet, etc.)
- Internet Movie Database
Excellent forms-based site for film research
- Internet Public Library Reference Center (U-M)
A digital version of an outstanding library reference department, librarians included.
- Library of Congress
Public access to biggest library in the U.S.
- Libweb: Library servers via WWW (UCB)
Access to general and specialized libraries around the world
- Middle English Compendium
A major resource for medievalists worldwide, containing an electronic version of the Middle English Dictionary, an extensive HyperBibliography of Middle English, and a searchable Corpus of Middle English texts.
- On-line Literary Research Tools (U Penn)
Very well cross-referenced guide
- On-line Writing Lab (OWL at U-M)
U-M English Composition Board interactive server with links to other composition sites and resources
- On-line Writing Resources on the Internet (U-M)
OWL's guide to guides for grammar, style, citations, and more.
- Smithsonian Institutions
Public access to U.S. national museums
- SunSITE (UNC)
Excellent general academic access site
- The Electronic Beowulf (U Ky)
Excellent application of Web capabilities to a single text
- The English Server (CMU)
From "academy" to "reference" to "women's center"
- The Mining Company
Authors (by nationaility and period) and book reviews
- University Library (U-M)
MIRLYN (Public on-line library catalog plus numerous specialized databases some of which are U-M access only
- Voice of the Shuttle (UCSB)
Excellent general humanities research page
- W3 Search Engines
Excellent collection of Web search sites
- Working With Networked Resources
A frames-based introduction, demonstration, and tutorial for those wanting to create their own Web pages
- Yahoo
Most popular site for general Web searching
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