The Academic World (A Mirror Page of the University of Wales Swansea Academia Page.)

• Academia: universities, professional societies, meetings & conferences.
• Subject Gateways: specialised catalogues of academic resources.
• Subject Catalogues: general subject-based guides.
• Keyword Searching: search engines and meta-indexes.
• Libraries: library web sites and library catalogues (OPACs).
• Publishing: publishers and booksellers.
• E-texts: electronic texts, journals and newspapers.
• E-mail: electronic mailing lists, addresses, directories.
• Quick Reference: dictionaries, gazetteers, quotations.
• Current Awareness: new networked services and sources.
• Guides: Internet & Web tutorials, resources guides.

 
 

Academia: universities, professional societies, meetings & conferences.

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Universities.

• UK universities - map | UK universities - list (U. Wolverhampton).
• UK University Email Addresses (University of Reading).
• UK colleges - map | UK colleges - list (U. Wolverhampton).
• UK research centres - map | UK research centres - list (U. Wolverhampton).
• UK universities (Birmingham U.).
• UK Colleges of Further & Higher Education (Birmingham U.).
• American Universities (Original link@Mike Conlon: U. Florida) or local mirror link.
• Universities Worldwide (U. of Innsbruck).
• International Universities (Christina DeMello: MIT - mirror sites in Australia and Italy).

• Scholarly Societies Project: web sites of scholarly societies (U. Waterloo).
• NISS Professional Bodies: a smaller, UK-based list.

• WWW Virtual Library on Conferences: the most comprehensive listing of conferences.
• Internet Conference Calendar: a smaller database but a useful complement to the Virtual Library.
• NISS conferences: links to conference diaries maintained by individual professional and scholarly societies.

• NISS Information for the HE & research community.
• BUBL Information for and about the UK academic community.
• SOSIG the Social Science Information Gateway.
• SocioSite Sociology information.
• Psych Web Psychology-related information.
• REGARD information on ESRC research awards and products.
• Biz/ed The internet gateway for Economics and Business education.
• NetEc Economics resources.
• Political Science Resources.
• EEVL the Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library.
• EELS the Engineering Electronic Library, Sweden.
• SciCentral Science & Engineering resources.
• ChemDex Chemistry on the Internet.
• TIPTOP The Internet Pilot To Physics.
• MathGuide Scholarly information in mathematics.
• CTI Geo-Information Gateway Geography, geology & the environment.
• GeoGuide Scholarly information in the earth sciences.
• OMNI Organising Medical Networked Information.
• HUMBUL a subject gateway for the Humanities.
• Philosophy around the Web.
• Philosophy in Cyberspace.
• AHDS Arts and Humanities Data Service.
• ADAM Art, Design, Architecture & Media.
• HISTORY Subject gateway from the Institute for Historical Research.
• H-GIG Web links to history.
• infolaw Gateway to the UK legal internet.
• GEM The Gateway to Educational Materials.
• RUDI the Resource for Urban Design Information.
• CAIN Conflict Archive on the Internet: a gateway for conflict studies, with particular emphasis on Northern Ireland.
• ELDIS gateway to information sources on development and the environment.
• Wales Links selected by the National Library of Wales.
• PICK Library & Information Science.

 
 

Subject Catalogues: general subject-based guides.

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• Net First A large catalogue of academic and research related Internet sites, with detailed descriptions of each site. A password is required for access: please contact the Library for more information.
• NISS directory of networked resources Internet sites relevant to the UK academic and research community, including a brief description of each site. Subjects can be browsed in both classified and alphabetical sequences.
• BUBL LINK Internet sites relevant to the UK academic and research community. Subjects can be browsed in both classified and alphabetical sequences.
• Yahoo! A very large, general-purpose subject guide to the Internet. Offers the options of displaying only British and Irish sites or of prioritising these sites in lists of worldwide resources.
• WWW Virtual Library This is the master index to specialised subject catalogues which are maintained at many sites across the Internet. If it's busy, try this alternative address.
• eBLAST The Encyclopaedia Britannica's web guide.
• Oxford Libraries Internet Gateway The Bodleian Library's Internet catalogue.
• Galaxy A large, general-purpose subject guide to the Internet.
• IntIndex (Silver Platter) Internet sites of general interest grouped by subject.

 
 

Keyword Searching: search engines and meta-indexes.

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• InfoSeek Probably the engine of choice at the moment.
• InfoSeek UK If you're looking for UK-based sites.
• EuroFerret Pan-European or individual country searches.
• Alta Vista One of the best web indexes. A very large database and a fast search engine.
• Lycos Another of the major web indexes.
• Web Crawler A smaller database but usually quite fast.
• Excite New and fast-growing news site.
• HotBot Another very popular service.
• Go2 The commercial version of the first Internet search engine.
• Aliweb A relatively small database but often useful for UK sites.
• Northern Light.
• UK-based search engines:

UKplus | Mirago | UKMax | Britnet | searchUK | U.K. directory.
• Search Engine Watch User guides and information about search engines.

• All4One performs a simultaneous search of Web Crawler, Yahoo, Lycos and Alta Vista. Results are displayed in separate frames so your browser must be frames-capable.
• MetaCrawler This search form allows you to search nine of the major web indexes simulataneously.
• Ask Jeeves.
• Highway 61.
• SavvySearch This search form allows you to search about twenty of the major web indexes simulataneously (including those in MetaCrawler). For more information about the system see the SavvySearch home page.
• Mamma.
• Debriefing.
• Dogpile.
• CUSI provides a common interface to several dozen web indexes. Each search has to be done separately but all the searching is done from the CUSI page

 
 

Libraries: library web sites and library catalogues (OPACs).

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Library Web Services

• UK Higher Education & Research Libraries
• UK Public Libraries
• Libraries in Wales: academic, public & research.
• Libweb: a worldwide index of library web servers.
• M25 Libraries: the home page of the M25 Consortium of Higher Education Libraries, representing more than 100 libraries in the London area belonging to over 40 colleges and universities.
• CURL: the Consortium of University Research Libraries.
• UK National Libraries: Portico (the British Library's Online Information Server), the National Art Library, the National Library of Scotland, and the National Library of Wales.

• Higher Education & Research Library Catalogues The main UK index for university OPACs.
• OBI OPACs in Britain and Ireland: a more extensive list. As well as covering Ireland it has links to non-university OPACs.
• British Library OPAC97 The catalogue of the major Reference and Document Supply collections of the British Library.
• COPAC A new national Online Public Access Catalogue, providing unified access to the online catalogues of some of the largest university research libraries in the UK and Ireland. Developed by CURL (the Consortium of University Research Libraries).
• HYTELNET This service provides access to library OPACs worldwide.
• Swansea Institute.

 
 

Publishing: publishers and booksellers.

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• Publishing Companies Online This is the WWW Virtual Library list of Publishing Companies which maintain World Wide Web or other Internet Resources.
• Directory of Publishers and Vendors maintained by AcqWeb.
• Publishers' Catalogues.
• Publishers Listing Birmingham University's list of publishing companies that run a Web Site.
• PubList.com World list of periodicals.
• NISS Bookshops & Publishers Links to bookshops and publishers providing online catalogue and how-to-order information.
• BUBL LINK Publishing & Bookselling Links from the relevant section of BUBL LINK.
• Internet Book Shop.
• Amazon.co.uk UK branch of the Internet bookshop.
• Out-of-Print Book Searching: a list of Internet sources.

 
 

E-texts: electronic texts, journals and newspapers.

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• WWW Virtual Library: Electronic journals This is the full index. You may prefer to look at Academic & Reviewed Journals only. There is also a separate list of College & University Publications.
• Alex: A Catalog of Electronic Texts on the Internet This was a research project which is currently in suspension but remains a useful archive.
• Oxford Text Archive The Oxford Text Archive is a provided by Oxford University Computing Services and forms part of the Humanities Computing Unit. The Archive exists to serve the interests of the academic community by providing low-cost archival and dissemination facilities for electronic texts.

• E&P MediaINFO, Internet Press and AJR NewsLink are extensive directories of web-based newspapers, magazines and news services.
• NISS News This page has links to UK and worldwide newspapers, current affairs, weather, business and other online news sources. The NISS Noticeboard has jobs, research opportunities, conferences and classifieds.
• NewsCenter Links to news and wire services (US based).
• Current Awareness using Internet Audio & Video Live news feeds for current affairs.
• Speech and Transcript Center Recordings and transcripts of recent and historical speeches, TV and radio programmes.
• News services:

Yahoo! News | MicroSoft Network | NewsNow and Media UK (UK based) | Newshub (US based) | NewsLinx | TotalNEWS.
• NewJour This is the archive for NewJour, an electronic mailing list for new journals and newsletters available on the Internet.
• Full-text Electronic Journals Access to the UK Pilot Site Licence service and information about other e-journals available at Swansea.

 
 

E-mail: electronic mailing lists, addresses, directories.

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• UK University Email Addresses compiled by the University of Reading.
• Mailbase The UK's major electronic mailing list service for research in Higher Education, enabling groups to manage their own discussion topics and associated files.
• Kovacs Directory of Scholarly Electronic Conferences This directory contains descriptions of electronic conferences (e-conferences) on topics of interest to scholars. E-conference is the umbrella term that includes discussion lists, Internet interest groups, e-journals, e-newsletters, Usenet newsgroups, forums, etc.
• DejaNews A very large, searchable archive of Usenet News messages.
• WhoWhere? Currently the most useful of the global directories of e-mail addresses, although searching the database of Mailbase subscribers is a better starting point for UK academics.
• Bigfoot email directory.
• Liszt the mailing list directory.
• NameFLOW-Paradise This is part of a pan-European networking project for the research community, called PARADISE. Its purpose is to establish an international, standardised, distributed directory to store contact details of researchers, including e-mail addresses.
• WED The World Email Directory. This is aimed at the commercial sector and includes business addresses and telephone numbers.
• yell yellow pages directory.
• Scoot services directory.
• Tools for Finding Email Addresses There is no comprehensive directory service. If the sources above don't have what you're looking for, this page (from Heriot-Watt University) has links to other directories which might be worth trying.

 
 

Quick Reference: dictionaries, gazetteers, quotations.

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The links below provide access to a variety of reference sources on the Internet which are publicly available. These include monolingual and bilingual dictionaries, glossaries of acronyms & abbreviations, calendars, encyclopaedias, maps, quotations, thesauri, statistics and gazeteers.

• Virtual Reference Desk.
• NISS Reference Works.
• BUBL LINK Reference Works.
• InfoPlease.
• Yahoo Reference section.
• Multi Media Mapping: interactive atlas of Great Britain.
• Kompass: company information.

 
 

Current Awareness: new networked services and sources.

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• Inform (current issue) The termly newsletter produced by Library & Information Services (LIS).
• Internet Resources Newsletter INTERNET RESOURCES is a monthly electronic newsletter, edited by Heriot-Watt University Library staff and published by Heriot-Watt University Internet Resource Centre. The newsletter aims to raise awareness of new sources of information on the Internet, particularly those which are relevant to research interests at Heriot-Watt University, but is an excellent resource for the UK academic community generally.
• NISS What's new A weekly listing of new information resources on the NISS Information Gateway.
• BUBL LINK Updates A weekly list of additions to the Subject Tree.
• WebScout Reviews of new Internet resources, also available as a weekly email newsletter.
• What's New? Constantly updated lists of new web sites, published by Internet magazine. This is the Global edition. There are separate editions for the US, Europe and the UK.
• new-lists A Mailbase e-mail list for announcing new Mailbase lists. There are also searchable archives.
• new-list A mailing list for announcements of new public mailing lists worldwide.
• NewJour This is the archive for NewJour, an electronic mailing list for new journals and newsletters available on the Internet.

 
 

Guides: Internet & Web tutorials, resources guides.

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• Using the Web Effectively Advice on how to make the most of the Web: using your browser software efficiently; making good use of search tools; and assessing the reliability of information.
• Internet Detective is a free online tutorial on evaluating the quality of Internet resources.
• Windweaver Guide to searching the internet.
• TONIC The Online Netskills Interactive Course is an easy-to-understand, structured course, offering step-by-step, practical guidance on major Internet topics, ranging from basic through to advanced. The course as a whole is intended for beginners to networking, who have some familiarity with computers.
• Internet Roadmap A World-Wide Web version of Patrick Crispen's Internet Roadmap course. "Roadmap is an Internet training workshop designed to teach new 'Net travellers' how to travel around the rapidly expanding (and often times confusing) 'Information Superhighway' without getting lost."
• Learn Netscape An online tutorial produced by the Netscape company.
• The PIER: a gateway to electronic resourcess based at the University of Sussex, providing links to selected Internet collections and resources. (Basically a much expanded version of this page.)