Bob Frost's Bookmarks

A selection of some handy stuff, readable by Netscape 2.0 and higher. Good for starters.

Miscellaneous Items Web-Based Gen'l Encyclopedia Zip Codes IRS taxforms Trade Wave Galaxy Postal Service

Electronic Texts

Some of these are accessible from within the University of Michigan computing environment only.

The Encyclopedia of Science and Technology All Boolean-searchable facts a humanist and social scientist would ever want to know in this field.
The American Memory Project at the Library of Congress
The Crossroads Project from the American Studies Program at the University of Michigan
The MUSE Project from Johns Hopkins University Press A nice site with a number of electronic scholarly journals, including Configurations (cultural studies of science and tech) and MODERNISM/Modernity, dedicated to the history of modernism.
The Humanities Text Initiative A massive and admirable effort to offer fully-formatted, attributed, and indexed bodies of texts on the Web, from a soon-to-appear Middle English dictionary to a vast collection of English poetry. Lots of nice links, too.
The Encyclopedia Americana As you would imagine, with lots of glitz.
The Oxford English Dictionary The genuine item, all 20+ volumes of it.
"Past Masters" Anglophone theory heads (Hume, Locke, Smith, etc.) through the nineteenth century (Sorry, no Hegel spinoffs).
The Gutenberg Project This is a low-level, ftp-only-acessible archive of "classic" texts, without version control or attribution, in ASCII (unformatted).

Historians' Resources A compendium of Web sites for historians H-Net, Humanities OnLine HOME PAGE Massive education/scholarly pointers SocSci Data Access Oxford History of Science Museum University Press Catalogs We wait for Books in Print... Gender Issues Web site Routledge Publishers London Times Higher Ed Supp Master Listserv finder Currency Exchange Rates Chronicle of Higher Education Job Listings ARTFL feminist resources La Villette Museum, Paris Society for the History of Technology American Historical Association Historical Text Archive Women in Technology Basic US History Docs Electronic Historical Publications Cultural Studies Times

Politics Progressive Directory Center for Democracy & Technology Utne Reader Vote-Smart Progressive Directory US Congress Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility

Diversions NY Times Film Reviews Encyclopedia of Film Ann Arbor Restaurants The Louvre Museum A2 Entertainment

U of M Resources JSTOR Journals On-line (U of M) UM Home Page UM Fac Finder Finding People & Units at U of M U of M Home Page Bob Frost's home page

Current Events & Info PBS Web site Le Monde CNN CNN Weather The New York Times

Off-Campus Libraries

Many of these require Telnet or tn3270 software; to get it, in Netscape, hit "Open" button, then type in: ftp://[uniqname]@login.itd.umich.edu/%2fafs/umich.edu/group/itd/swdist with no spaces & proceed.

WWW Virtual Library
Library of Congress on the Web
MIT Library
Harvard Library (Hollis)
U Cal System (Melvyl) Libraries
Stanford Library
University of Chicago Libraries
Center for Research Libraries

Web Searching

Search tools for the Web

Alta Vista Engine!: This is VERY powerful, as it searches every word on every Web page. Wow. Be careful and use search terms wisely.
Webcrawler
Nt'l White Pages No.1
Nt'l White Pages No 2
Infoseek
Excite Info Search
Lycos Searching
Web Yellow Pages
Whole Internet Catalog
Yahoo