There are plenty of humanities resources on the Invisible Web, and as a Liberal Arts/English major, I'm inevitably drawn to arts, literature, and history Web sites that will give me greater insight on what I'm reading for classes, or help me on a research project, or just help me to understand more of the author's purpose. This is where the Invisible Web really comes in handy, because there is no end of the great humanities Web sites you can find.
Humanities Resources on the Deep Web
- The Humbul Humanities Hub (say that fast ten times) is an astoundingly huge site. If you can't find what you're looking for here, I'd be surprised. Search from categories such as German Studies, Classics, History, and Religion and Theology.
- Search for arts and humanities subjects at InfoMine.com. This database contains a ton of arts and humanities info as well as pretty much anything else you could possibly think of.
- Search gurus Chris Sherman and Gary Price's invaluable Invisible Web Directory delivers the goods once again in the liberal arts section.
- The Librarians' Index to the Internet is a great collection of information; anything from animation to textiles.
- The Resource Discovery Network gives searchers many arts and humanities categories to search from, including arts and creative industries, humanities, and social sciences.
- If you feel the need to get artsy-fartsy, than try ADAM, the "gateway to art, design, architecture, and media information on the Internet." Basically this is a specialized search engine that is indexed by a team of librarians, using strict cataloging guidelines. Excellent resource.
- Georgetown University has put together The Labyrinth, a site that gives searchers resources for anything medieval. Search in categories from coins to Old Norse. A very interesting site that I plan on spending some time at.
- The National Endowment for the Humanities is a searchable database that covers American History. I typed in "The Alamo" and came up with some really great results.
- University of California's Searchlight.com allows you to "search publicly-available databases and other resources available to Internet users". They have two flavors: Arts and Humanities, or Sciences and Engineering. Within the Arts and Humanities section, you can choose which topic you'd like to specialize in, which will narrow down your search results even further.
- Humanities Text Initiative: From the University of Michigan; "The Humanities Text Initiative (HTI) is an umbrella organization for the creation, delivery, and maintenance of electronic texts, as well as a mechanism for furthering the library community's capabilities in the area of online text."
- Sprague Library of Montclair State University:"The content of this site consists of primary texts in Latin, Greek, Anglo-Saxon and English, and secondary texts in English." Also includes a Latin search engine.
